… give thanks in all circumstances, for this is God’s will for you in Christ Jesus. — 1 Thessalonians 5:18
Why would God ask us to do such a difficult thing?
I heard a wonderful testimony one night on PBS by an atheist. Even though this man didn’t believe in God, his story was dripping with Divine intervention. He was lost on a mountainside in a blizzard. As he dangled over a cliff with a broken leg, his partner unable to communicate with him, gave him up as dead. So he cut the rope, causing him to fall into a crevasse in the ice. Perched on a ledge within the crevasse, unable to climb the 80 feet of sheer ice to get out he was faced with a choice. He could sit there and await his own death, or he could climb down and see if there was a way of escape. He got to the bottom of the crevasse and discovered, to his complete surprise, a light. There was an opening in the ice. There was a light at the end of the tunnel.
Thanksgiving is like this. It is a light in a dark place — not because it is, in itself, some kind of magical incantation, but rather because it brings God near, and He is our way of escape.
Be encouraged!
Dwight
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