HAPPY
THANKSGIVING
TO OUR FRIENDS & VISITORS TO THIS BLOG
OCTOBER 8 is a very special day for Donna
and me because 57 years ago (1955) on that date we were joined
together in Holy Matrimony, and because it is the day that has been set aside
in Canada for thankful reflection.
First of all our thanks should be to our
Heavenly Father the benevolent Creator God and has given us Life and all good
things. Secondly, we should thank God for all who are and have been helpful,
generous and kind! We have so much to be thankful for.
Sadly, we live in a generation that has
fulfilled the prophecy of the Holy Bible that points out ‘unthankfulness’ as one of the sins, among many others, that will be
prevalent in the ‘Last Days’. (2 Tim.3: 1-5)
How thankful we should be for the Gospel
of Jesus Christ and freedom from the power of evil and darkness that He gives
every one of His blood-washed children. The whole world was lost in sin,
fear, sickness and death and then God the Son, ‘Christ the Righteous One’, was
incarnated (God in human flesh), came from Heaven to save us all.
More than 700 years before the birth of
Christ, Isaiah stated: “Therefore the
Lord Himself shall give you a sign; Behold, a virgin shall conceive, and bear a
SON, and shall call His name Immanuel.” (Isa.7:14) Again he prophesied: “For unto us a child
is born, unto us a Son is given: and the government shall be upon His shoulder:
and His Name shall be called Wonderful Counsellor, The Mighty God, The
Everlasting Father, The Prince of Peace.” (Isa. 9: 6)
Micah, a younger contemporary of Isaiah
pin-pointed the very town where Jesus would be born: "But thou,
Bethlehem Ephratah, though thou be little among the thousands of Judah, yet out
of thee shall he come forth unto me that is to be Ruler in Israel; Whose goings
forth have been from of old, from everlasting.” (Micah 5: 2)
The Bible says: “For God so loved
the world that He gave His only begotten Son that whosoever believeth on Him should
not perish but have everlasting life. For God sent not His Son into the world
to condemn the world, but that the world through Him should be saved.” (John 3: 16, 17).
“He that
believeth on the Son hath everlasting life: and he that believeth not the Son
shall not see life but the wrath of God abideth on him.” (John 3: 36)
In his amazing Epistle to the Romans, St.
Paul outlines the glorious salvation
that was in the heart of God before the foundations of the earth were laid. God
the Son would wrap Himself in human flesh, suffer, bleed and die for the sins
of the human race.
His resurrection from the dead on the third day gave Him
complete victory over death, hell and the grave and paid the sin debt that had
been laid upon us by Adam’s tragic fall!
“For when we were
yet without strength, in due time Christ died for the ungodly. For scarcely for
a righteous man some will one die: Yet peradventure for a good man some would
even dare to die. But God commendeth His love toward us, in that, while we were
yet sinners, Christ died for us.” (Romans 5: 6-8)
We have so much to
be thankful for in Canada, a land of freedom, ample natural resources and rare
opportunities. It is also a land with a great history, democratic principles
and strong Christian faith and morals.
And after more
than a long decade of the corrupting influence of a decadent government we
have become the envy of the world again with a stable, sane and
level-headed government and a Prime Minister who is looked upon as the moral
and economic leader of the free world.
May God bless
Prime Minister Stephen Harper and his family, and all those who serve in the
Canadian Government. May God bless HRH Queen Elizabeth 11 and His blessings also
rest upon each one reading these lines! Amen.
