Christmas is creeping up, but Thanksgiving is just around the corner. I started thinking about what I am thankful for.
You might have heard the song, “What if Jesus comes back today,” but what if Jesus had not come yet today?
Imagine – only going to temple once a year to pray and say, “God, help me. . . . God, heal my son. . . .God, send mentor’s across his path to open his eyes to Your Truth. . .God, I am scared. . .God, can you hold me because I feel like crying right now and I don’t think anyone else can understand except you. . .God, forgive me – I really missed it today. . .
Imagine – saving it all up – all that need bundled up only to be released once a year. Buy the spotless lamb and offer it at the temple for sacrifice – just to be able to cover your sin so God could gaze upon your need once a year, hear you, and comfort you.
No emergency room pleas, “Dear Father, save my son.”
No twilight drops to the knees, “Dear Father, help my son be the man you created him to be”
No huddles in the closet when everything is overwhelming, “Dear Father, lift me up, hold me, comfort me”
Only yearly visits to the temple to say, “Father, help me.”
And that is only if you were a biological apple on Abraham’s family tree.
I would have been a gentile. A gentile did not even have the one-year temple visit with God. Gentiles were unclean. Gentiles were not in the family.
No hope! No help! No Mercy! Nothing!
Just waiting, waiting for God to send His son who would be the permanent living sacrifice to forever, once and for all cover my sin so that God would not turn away in disgust at the filth of my soul – Because of Jesus sacrifice – the sacrifice with a life-time warrently replacing the lamb whose blood apparently secured a 1 year warranty – God looks upon me, watches me, never takes His eye off me or my children
He is beside my sons on the soccer field, on the playgroun, at school, at a friend’s house , as long as they’ll have Him there
He was in the delivery room when the doctor said, “I don’t have a heartbeat,” and He held my son in the palm of His hand until he was born, health and hole with APGARs of 9
He heard my please for a faithful husband who would love and value me, and sent my husband to me
He heard the prayes of a little girl in the back yard on a Spring day, calling out to Him, to please love her and never abandon her
He heard the prayers of a mother who son was tormented by stomach pain for 5 years and sent a laborer with the name of a doctor who took that pain away
and a mother’s prayer for her sons’ wives
prayers for children, friends, family, strangers
for fear, for deliverance, for pain, for confusion, prayers for forgiveness
prayers in my van, at my kitchen sink, in a grocery store, the laundry room, lots of prayers in my van
asking prayers, praise prayers,
forgiving prayers,
and thanking prayers
Anywhere
Anytime
all because
God sent His son
Thank you, God
from your daughter, adopted into the family of Abraham, because Jesus said so!
Wow. I loved this post. My sentiments exactly and so well expressed. We serve an awesome God. Happy Thanksgiving, SITSta!
I wouldn’t know how to act if I couldn’t pray all the time any where. I’m think I’m praying unceasingly now because my husband lost his job last week. That makes 3 out of 6 people in my family (Mom, StepDad, Husband) that have lost their jobs in the last 7 months. :o(
The world is a hard place to live in…
My husband said today, “I don’t think you are cut out for this tough world.” I thought that was rather strange that he said that, but I guess it is true. I am a wimp that just wants sunshine and rainbows for everyone and I don’t understand why there has to be evil, crime, corruption and war. Well, I understand why, I just wish I didn’t have to live in a world with it.
I enjoyed your posting. Thanks. ♥
Thank you for sharing this! I love it and you worded it so beautifully. Thank goodness for God. 😉
That was beautiful!
Thanks for the welcome!
Hope you have a wonderful Thanksgiving!
Love the sentiments of your post – just wanted to say that Jews could pray to God all the time even though they went to Temple once a year. Also believeing Gentiles could also pray anytime. But I understand what you were trying to say.
Amen! I am so thankful that Jesus provided a way for this born gentile to be born again into a new spiritual family through the His work on the cross. He eliminated the separation of mankind into two different generational lines and created a new breed of man, one that is directly born of God, into His royal family. I am thankful that once I had no hope for living in fellowship with God and now I have bold access to Him at all times because Jesus said so!!! 🙂
This was so beautifully written and so heartfelt. Thank you so much for sharing this. I really never thought of it that way. I am so grateful to have hope, and to be “adopted”!!!
That was a beautiful post! Have a happy Thanksgiving!
Very touching post. Since having my daughter I feel like I’ve been brought back to my faith. He gave me hope when there was none to be had.
Lovely~and poignant~post! I’m thankful for so much. Tops would be the familia all gathered around the dining room table on Thursday. We have our health and we have each other. Don’t need much else, oui? SITS sent me by, and I’m glad they did…
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Nicely put.
beautifully written!
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It is incredible to remember that the veil is torn and the way into the Holy of Holies is now open to us at all times…..we are to approach the mercy seat with confidence. How blessed we are.
All because God sent His son. Thank you for this precious reminder!!
Oh what a thankful heart, what a beautiful post on all God has done for you!!
Thanks so much for sharing with us all these awesome memories.
I think I’ve told you already but I’m the mom of 5 sons too.
Happy Thanksgiving♥
it is wonderful that we can have a loving relationship with our Lord