"I will give thanks to the LORD
with my whole heart;
I will recount all your wonderful deeds.
I will be glad and exult in you;
I will sing praise to your name, O Most High."
Psalm 9:1-2 ESV
President Lincoln started it all, looking for a way to unify the nation during the Civil War. In 1863, he stated that the nation's many blessings, "should be solemnly, reverently, and gratefully acknowledged" by the American people, declaring: "I do therefore invite my fellow-citizens in every part of the United States, and also those who are at sea and those who are sojourning in foreign lands, to set apart and observe the last Thursday of November next as a day of thanksgiving and praise to our beneficent Father who dwelleth in the heavens." *
Let us follow the counsel of the sixteenth President of the United States and set the entire day aside for acknowledging our many blessings. This Thanksgiving let us not give thanks, however, but give thanks to the Lord!
He is worthy of our praise!
*http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2013/11/26/thanksgiving-abraham-lincoln-franklin-roosevelt/3685975/
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