(Perspective) Biblical: “Thanks(for)Giving”

Read Luke 6:35-36 and Luke 14:12-14

One of my most memorable thanksgiving feasts took place at a woman’s group home where I was temporarily living. We were homeless, poor, emotionally maimed, lame, blind. At that point in our lives we were essentially lost, forgotten members of society. The mission group supporting us and providing the meal were reaping their blessings in heaven. When you’re an outcast from your family, or burden to society with nothing to offer anyone, a feast such as this that you cannot payback but only receive from really captures the essence of this passage.

Then He also said to him, who invited Him, ‘When you give a dinner or a supper, do not ask your friends, your brothers, your relatives, nor rich neighbors, lest they also invite you back, and you be repaid But when you give a feast, invite the poor, the maimed, the lame, the blind. And you will be blessed, because they cannot repay you, for you shall be repaid at the resurrection of the just.

Luke 14:12-14

A portion from Luke 6: 35 reads ...

for Hs is kind to the unthankful and evil.

Christ Himself extends His love and compassion even to those who don’t appreciate.
Be encouraged and reminded though, it’s fun and fitting to have meals with friends family and loved ones. In Ecclesiastes 5:18-20

Here is what I have seen; It is good and fitting for one to eat and drink, and to enjoy the good of all his labor in which he toils under the sun all the days of his life which God gives him; for it is his heritage. As for every man to whom God has given riches and wealth, and given him power to eat of it to receive his heritage and rejoice in his labor-this is a gift of God. For he will not dwell unduly on the days of his life, because God keeps him busy with the joy of his heart.

Blessings also flow when you make an opportunity to be hospitable to the less fortunate. You are the blessing and answer to prayer. God will bless you.

So Thanks For Giving and for forgiving. You know who you are.

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