Thanksgiving 2017

                                                                                                                                                              
                                                                                                                                                              
                                                                                                                                                              

I was thinking yesterday how much we have to thank God for this year.

It's constantly on my mind, and evident in every day's news, that evil increasingly rules our earthly kingdom.  Righteousness and truth are glaringly absent from our current national life.  And it's a frequent topic here that the Christians of our nation have played, and are playing, an instrumental part in making it so.

So I'm especially thankful God has given us this time to re-think our ways, and repent.  Nothing is more certain that God's judgement against those who practice unrighteousness and lies in His name.  The only question is when: and He has been merciful to give us time this year to repent, and turn back to Him.

We who haven't fallen for the enemy's lies must also be thankful for that.  That is God's grace towards us... nothing of our own perceptiveness.  (Trust in their own perceptions is exactly what led so many Christians into the enemy's camp.)

For those of us He's kept from being deceived by the world, it's seemed He has made His light brighter to us, and in us, because the darkness is so much greater than ever before.  For that most of all we should pour out our praises and thanks to God.

We can rightly thank God for keeping us from the national corruption in which we currently live.  Our faith thanks Him too for His swift and sure judgement on the evil-doers who mislead His people.  But our greatest thanks this year must be that God has increasingly separated us to Himself, and is drawing us closer to Himself.