THANKSGIVING
2015
Today, across America, people are appropriately giving thanks. We have so much to be thankful for. Many are thankful for their family. Others for financial prosperity. Others for the freedom and security we enjoy in our nation. Still others are thankful for food on the table and a warm place to live in.
I am thankful for all of these things, and more. I am truly grateful. But I keep wondering what it would be like to be one of the thousands of refugees who have been displaced, who does not have the privilege of living in a secure and free nation, who has no guarantee of a good meal, who has lost his family as many have, who has no source of income, who has no place to call "home."
I ask myself, "Could I still be thankful if I lost all the material blessings I now enjoy?"
My mind keeps going back to the words of the Lord Jesus. His disciples were exuberantly happy, walking on air because of their successes. Jesus put things in perspective when He said, "Rejoice because your names are written in heaven."*
All the material and social thing I enjoy are wonderful, but their importance pales in comparison to the true riches that I enjoy in Christ – the promise of eternal life.
Yes, if everything I have and all the pleasures of life were to disappear, I would still have something to be thankful for.
I thank God for that.
Love, Dad
* Luke 10:20
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