What Is Your Will In Christ?

Thanksgiving... ... President George Washington first proclaimed it as a national holiday in America marking November 26, 1789, "as a day of public thanksgiving and prayer, to be observed by acknowledging with grateful hearts the many and signal favours of Almighty God". Some might think that the idea of a Thanksgiving feast only began with the Pilgrims who came to America in the 1600s, but if they did, they might consider looking a little deeper. For example ... "The meat of the sacrifice of his peace offering of thanksgiving must be eaten on the day he offers it; none of it may be left until morning." Leviticus 7:15 (NLT) As with all holidays these days, if there's some religious attachment to it, there seems to be a bent toward drowning it in rich secular secular gravy. That's to be expected in this world given the spiritual forces warring against us, but as followers of Christ and deep believers of God's word, we're not dissuaded from taking thos...

 A man of some obvious experience in life sits in the back of a large auditorium filled with people and chairs. His hair is neatly combed and he's well, yet comfortably dressed. He sits almost statue-like with his hands resting quietly in his lap. In the moment that he seems to be enduring with experienced patience, the room is filled with the sound of music and a chorus of voices singing in unison. He's surrounded by the impassioned praises of saints giving glory and praise to the very God that gave him life, but his stoic expression and stare belie nothing more than a passive interest in what's occurring around him. It's obvious that he's waiting patiently for it all to end, but why?. I see him clearly and for a moment, I'm consumed with wonder ... what's wrong with him? My heart and mind don't condemn him - no, more than anything I'm filled with a compassionate sadness for him ... he appears to have no life in him. That same man's here at the ...

I've lived long enough to have spent time around a number of disenfranchised, disheartened, broken people ... some of them Christians. So many people have felt let down by parents, a spouse, friends, an employer, a human establishment, opportunity, or in the case of some Christians even ... ... God? In the case of those living a life solely focused on the world, their disappointment is understandable. Living in the world we have a tendency to find ourselves at least somewhat reliant on people and establishments that are themselves less than perfect and subject to potential failures and it's a given than none of us are perfect. So the flaws of b roken people have a tendency show themselves at times to contribute to the dark cloud of occasional disappointments.   Disappointed Christians on the other hand, who believe in and place their trust in the God of the bible are doing so in the belief of a perfect, omniscient, omnipresent and omnipotent being ... so where does their disapp...