I tried to send this 8 times yesterday.  Also half of the devotional mailing kept coming back to me saying either mailbox didn't exists or not on allowed rpcthost.  Today, they finally went out.  I'll try this one too.  Aren't computers fun?

 

 

Friday, November 7, 2008

SCRIPTURE OF THE DAY: Colossians 2:6-7

PSALM OF THE WEEK: Psalm 18:20-30

HYMN OF THE DAY: CH# 715 “Now Thank We All Our God” http://www.cyberhymnal.org/htm/n/o/nowthank.htm

VERSE OF THE DAY: As you therefore have received Christ Jesus the Lord, continue to live your lives in him, rooted and built in him and established in the faith, just as you were taught, abounding in thanksgiving.  Colossians 2:6-7 NRSV

 

We tend to see Thanksgiving as a once a year time when we host a big free community dinner at First Christian.  Paul reminds us that thanksgiving is a lifestyle, not just a holiday for turkey, football, and shopping.  As we have accepted Christ Jesus as our savior, we continue to live for him, and do so with abounding thanksgiving.  In Christ we are free.  In Christ we are forgiven.  In Christ, we have life eternal, now and forever.  In Christ we have become part of the church, the very Body of Christ, and part of God’s family forever.  What’s there not to be thankful for?  God has already given us everything!  We praise God for that by what we do for God, and how we do it.  The best “thank you” we can give to God for this free gift is by living our lives in the best way we can for God.  Live in Faith, in the Glory of God, and with abounding Thanksgiving.  That’s saying “Thank You” to God.

 

PRAYER: O God who has given us everything in Christ; Thank you with all my heart and soul.  May live for you only and truly love you with my whole body, mind, soul, and being, loving my neighbor as myself, so that they may see that I am truly thankful to you for what you have done. Amen.

 

See you in Church Sunday,

Pastor Sandy

 

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