Thanksgiving Musings: Between the Day Christ Died and I Believed

www.caffeinatedthoughts.com ^ | 11/24/10 | David Shedlock

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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 haven’t 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 there was another Day. The Day I first believed. In spite of my sin, God drew me to Himself and I looked to Christ. What a happy and joyous day! – O! Glorious Grace! Life was given to me: one dead in my trespasses and sins. I was hard-hearted and stubborn and only inclined to go my own way, but God, by His free will, changed me, opened my eyes and granted unto me the gifts of faith and repentance. Blessed be the God of all grace!

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 didn’t have any children, they won’t either. But it is really more profound than that. If any of my ancestors didn’t have any children then I wouldn’t 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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We have so much for to be thankful for than we know.

David Shedlock

[Tex52]

Thanks for the reminder.

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You’re welcome. But it was as much for me as anybody else.

[grame]

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.

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Thank you my friend.