HELEN REDMAN, PRESIDENT
NEWSLETTER
November 2008
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As we come into the Thanksgiving season, we can say with David the Psalmist, "Bless the Lord, O my soul, and forget not all his benefits." Ps. 103:2When Livingstone disappeared into the jungles of Central Africa in 1866, he was not seen again until he was found by Stanley in 1872 at Ujiji in a starving condition. Stanley returned to the coast with supplies and provisions which did not reach Livingstone for five months. At last they came, and the entry in his diary for August 9, 1872 reads: “I do most devoutly thank the Lord for his goodness in bringing my men near to this. Three came today and how thankful I am, I cannot express. It is well—the men who were with Mr. Stanley came again to me. Bless the Lord, O my soul, and all that is within me, bless his holy name.”Our thanksgiving is too often from the lips only. If it is to be of any real worth it must be from the heart. If we “think, then we will thank.” The reason we are so thankless is because we are so thoughtless. We must choose to cultivate a grateful heart. Thanksgiving Day is a special day set apart to express gratitude to God for his blessings. Dr. E. Stanley Jones, missionary statesman to India said that Christians should live each day in a “attitude of gratitude”. And with that we begin to understand Thanksgiving isn’t just a date on our November calendar—it is an attitude, a way of life. Then we begin to feel just a little bit of what the Apostle Paul meant when he wrote that we were to “give thanks everyday for everything” and “be filled with gratitude”. (Eph. 5:20; Col. 3:16) These words from President Lyndon Johnson’s 1964 Thanksgiving Proclamation might well become a habit with us everyday: “Let us give thanks to God for His graciousness and generosity to us...pledge to Him our everlasting devotion...beseech His divine guidance, and the wisdom and strength to recognize and follow that guidance.” |
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