Thanksgiving Day

The Thanksgiving holiday is great, isn't it? Families gather together and exchange big fish stories, play board games, watch TV, and (of course) eat! What a celebration! I don't know about your families, but my family usually doesn't eat all day before the Thanksgiving meal. We like to wait, so we can truly savor all the different tastes and varieties of food. As the time for the meal draws near, the smells of the food make their way into all the rooms of the house, and for the first time, we realize that we are desperately hungry. Then a friendly face appears from the kitchen doorway. As Mom pokes her head in, she says, "OK everybody! One week from today we're going to eat!"

What? We're not eating until next week?

I don't know about you, but I think I would go crazy if all that wonderful food was just sitting on the table, steaming hot, ready for me to devour, but I had to let it sit there for another week.

In this situation, we have put ourselves in the position of our spiritual man, the soul inside each of us. I think of the Thanksgiving feast as the Bible, with all the wonderfully perfect inspired words found within. How terrible to let such a feast go to waste! We are literally torturing our spiritual man when we lay the Bible on the table and wait for the next week to open and read it. Do we look at the Bible as a daily necessity? Are we taking care of the needs of our spirit? These are serious internal questions that can only be answered by delving deep inside ourselves, and truly taking note of who we are. Let's take care not to neglect our spiritual man in the daily activities of life, he gets hungry too.

Matthew 5:6
Blessed are those who hunger and thirst for righteousness, for they shall be satisfied.