The feast of Thanksgiving is this week.
Another reason to gather with family, visit, eat, and enjoy.
We have several such occasions; beginning with New Years and black-eyed peas with cabbage.
There are some that may find an excuse (or reason) to feast at Valentine’s and St. Patrick’s Day.
Easter is another feast time with perhaps a ham.
Along comes the 4th of July and it’s barbecue, hamburgers, or hotdogs.
Labor Day brings out the barbecue pit again; then Fall Festivals begin around the end of October with hobo stew and hotdogs again.
November brings Thanksgiving and the year ends with another huge family get together – Christmas.
In the Old Testament, God gave Israel feasts to observe and honor Him but their feasts soon became a day for them and not a day for Him.
Soon God sent this message, “When you come to appear before Me, who has required this from your hand to trample My courts?
Bring no more futile sacrifices; Incense is an abomination to Me.
The New Moons, the Sabbaths, and the calling of assemblies — I cannot endure iniquity and the sacred meeting. Your New Moons and your appointed feasts My soul hates; They are a trouble to Me, I am weary of bearing them.” Isa 1:12-14
Our own feast days have become commercialized and celebrated for many wrong reasons.
One holiday cannot be enjoyed because the local store is already setting up for the next.
In the New Testament, Paul talks about the Hebrew feast of Passover and how Christ has become our Passover.
Then Paul says, “So let us celebrate the festival, not by eating the old bread of wickedness and evil, but by eating the new bread of purity and truth.” 1 Cor 5:8 NLT
No matter what day, season, or reason you celebrate, you should celebrate with Jesus!
Give Him thanks this week and every week.
Give Him thanks every day!
Give Him thanks!