The Revelation of Jesus with Rick Sterling~

Thanksgiving~

We are coming to my favorite holiday of the year, Thanksgiving. Family, good food, wonderful conversations and interactions with loved ones, and remembering good times and Thanksgivings past. When I think about it, there is a kind of emotional sappiness about Thanksgiving which I love. But the most important thing about the Thanksgiving holiday here in America for me is that there are NO gifts and presents required for admission. All that is required is that you get together with friends and family, and enjoy each others company. 

That is not to say that I don't like Christmas, I do. But for a musician Christmas is a LOT of work to prepare for the concerts and church music commitments that require hours of rehearsal, and sometimes travel. I DO LOVE IT. The thing I don't like about the Christmas season is that it starts so early these days; the store where I work part time already has all of our Christmas merchandise on display for sale way before Thanksgiving, and this is just wrong.

All this is well and good, but what we do forget to be Thankful for this time of year, and should be thankful every day of the year is that Jesus took time out of his busy schedule running the universe to come to this earth and bring the TRUTH from God about salvation to a truth starved world that had been co-pted by lies. These lies are so insideous that people have become thankful for those very lies, believing that what they have been taught about salvation is true. 

Yes, we should be thankful for the 'good news' of salvation, but if you believe what the church has taught about how salvation works you are thanking the God of the Universe for those lies, and this will end up killing you. We must LEARN the Truth in order to be thankful for it. Beware the deception and you will be able to be truly thankful for Salvation of God through the words and teachings of Jesus! Happy Thanksgiving to all!