Fellowship and Thanksgiving

I just have a couple of passages to share with you today for your meditation and inspiration. When I think about Thanksgiving, two things especially come to mind.

I think about the relationships we get to share usually with those we know and hopefully love! The fellowship times can be great, as we are with those family members we don’t often see.

I also think about Who it is we are thanking for all our bounteous blessings we often take for granted from day to day.

This is a time for making your relationships count. Preparing yourself for a time when you can be a blessing requires spending more time connecting with God, drinking deeply from his reservoir of Love, so you’ll have more to pour out on those you’ll be spending time with.

The first passage below reminds us of the beauty of unity. The last passage reminds us Who brings unity if we stay in close connection and choose to walk in his love and grace for us – that we can then extend to others.

Enjoy your Thanksgiving as you focus on these thoughts.

Being together with each other:

How good and pleasant it is when brothers live together in unity!
(The Message Bible puts it this way: “How wonderful, how beautiful, when brothers and sisters get along!”)
It is like precious oil poured on the head, running down on the beard, running down on Aaron's beard, down upon the collar of his robes.
It is as if the dew of Hermon were falling on Mount Zion. For there
the LORD bestows his blessing, even life forevermore.
- Psalm 133, NIV

Being together with God:

Psalm 100
A psalm. For giving thanks.
1 Shout for joy to the LORD, all the earth.
2 Worship the LORD with gladness; come before him with joyful songs.
3 Know that the LORD is God. It is he who made us, and we are his; we are his people, the sheep of his pasture.
4 Enter his gates with thanksgiving and his courts with praise; give thanks to him and praise his name.
5 For the LORD is good and his love endures forever; his faithfulness continues through all generations.