Posted on 11/25/2010 1:53:25 AM PST by grassboots.org
I am not nearly as thankful as I ought to be. The two most important days of my life I often take for granted. The First Day was the day that Christ died for my sins. Jesus took the punishment for every one of my sins, even the ones I havent committed yet. Dreadful thought that I would live as in ingrate! Glorious thought that he would die anyway! That one day alone should be enough to cause me to live every moment in continuous Thanksgiving. Righteous Christ died for me, the ungodly.
But today, I want to give thanks for all the things he did for me between the Day Christ Died and the Day I believed.
First, God watched over all of my ancestors. I am fond of joking with people that if their parents didnt have any children, they wont either. But it is really more profound than that. If any of my ancestors didnt have any children then I wouldnt exist. 20 centuries of mothers, perhaps 65 generations or more, delivered babies healthy enough to survive into adulthood. They had to refuse...
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David Shedlock
Thanks for the reminder.
You’re welcome. But it was as much for me as anybody else.
We can’t even begin to grasp how wide and long and high and deep is the love of Christ, But we can begin to know this love that surpasses knowledge— and strive to be filled to the measure of all the fullness of God.
Have a blessed Thanksgiving.
Thank you my friend.
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