November 17, 2025 - Good Morning! It’s Monday, November 17.
Christmas is coming! Actually, it’s been coming for a while, with Yuletide items on store shelves for weeks and weeks. We give Christmas a “wide berth.” We give it plenty of room, plenty of focus, plenty of time. But most holidays are just one day affairs, one-offs, one and done. Usually that’s fine with me. One day to feed candy to the little neighborhood monsters, one day to buy candy for our sweethearts, one day to - well, do whatever it is we’re supposed to do on Arbor Day.
But it doesn’t seem right, somehow, that we only set aside one day... for Thanksgiving. And we don’t really give thankfulness a full 24 hours - sandwiching a short prayer between the eating and the football. A spirit of thankfulness, a lifestyle of thankfulness, deserves more than just one day. So, for the next couple of weeks, here at the Daily Devotion, we’ll focus on Thanksgiving, on preparing our minds and hearts for this important holiday. We’ll look at songs of thanks. We’ll remember Bible characters who were thankful. We’ll recall Christ’s teachings on this subject that is a foundation of our faith.
Let’s “prime the pump” with some scriptures.
- “Enter His gates with thanksgiving and His courts with praise; give thanks to Him and praise his name.” Psalm 100:4
- “Since we are receiving a kingdom that cannot be stolen, let us be thankful...” Hebrews 12:28
- “Be joyful always; pray continually, give thanks in all circumstances...” I Thessalonians 16:18
- “Let the peace of God rule in your hearts, since as members of one body, you were called to peace, and be thankful.” Colossians 2:6-7
- “Thanks be to God for His indescribable gift!” 2 Corinthians 9:15
Meet you back here tomorrow,
David
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