President George Washington made the following Thanksgiving Day proclamation (October 3, 1789):
“Whereas it is the duty of all Nations to acknowledge the providence of Almighty God, to obey his will, to be grateful for his benefits, and humbly to implore his protection and favor, and whereas both Houses of Congress have by their joint Committee requested me “to recommend to the People of the United States a day of public thanksgiving and prayer to be observed by acknowledging with grateful hearts the many signal favors of Almighty God especially by affording them an opportunity peaceably to establish a form of government for their safety and happiness. Now therefore I do recommend and assign Thursday the 26th day of November next to be devoted by the People of these States to the service of that great and glorious Being, who is the beneficent Author of all the good that was, that is, or that will be. That we may then all unite in rendering unto him our sincere and humble thanks, for his kind care and protection of the People of this Country previous to their becoming a Nation, for the signal and manifold mercies, and the favorable interpositions of his providence, which we experienced in the course and conclusion of the late war, for the great degree of tranquility, union, and plenty, which we have since enjoyed, for the peaceable and rational manner, in which we have been enabled to establish constitutions of government for our safety and happiness, and particularly the national One now lately instituted, for the civil and religious liberty with which we are blessed; and the means we have of acquiring and diffusing useful knowledge; and in general for all the great and various favors which he hath been pleased to confer upon us.” …
This may have been the beginning of a time of great national reverence but it also was a time of the beginning of great slaughter, slavery and bloodshed of the African and Native American peoples. The fact remains that to this day, as they were then, we are now, all sinners, born into sin and inclined to do evil, all of us. We are all in need of the Savior, Jesus Christ. The day of thanksgiving arose from an event where the God of The Bible revealed Himself to those who were forced to set aside their differences in order to survive. Today may we do the same. The source of all life is The Lord. He is to be feared and His handiwork and provision must never be forgotten. The human body is an incrediblecreation with the 75,000 miles of blood vessels inside the average human body, made up of 7,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 (7 octillion) atoms, with a brain that if it were a computer, it could perform 38 thousand-trillion operations per second, with the production of 25 million new cells each second and one that produces differently structured tears depending on the reason we’re crying. The schools have robbed God of his credit, science robs God of his glory, the media robs God of his dignity, the churches rob God of His holiness and we all rob God of the honor He is due with our politically correct cowardice with all of our attention focused on trite, mindless,meaningless activities and pursuits.
200 plus years later, everything George Washington mentioned hangs in the balance and is taken for granted by so many. No race, creed or group of people like Americans today have ever had life so good and yet so bad at the same time. No nation has ever been blessed more than this nation. To whom much is given, much is required. God is holy and God is all powerful. He is loving but He is not mocked.
We were all bought with a price. May we never forget the true source of our blessings that we in fact DO NOT DESERVE. May we never forget that the finished work of Jesus Christ on the cross paid our sin debt in full so we can approach the Throne of The Almighty with confidence to thank Him for His mercies, His forgiveness ,His provision for our lives, our very lives themselves and the many wonders and blessings that we so mistakenly take for granted. Let us look inward on this special day, examine ourselves and align our priorities with His will for our lives in hopes that they will positively affect the lives of others. Let us also never be so foolish and arrogant as to ever truly depend on the works of our own hands for in doing so will only invite His turning us over to our own devices which may fail us, or even worse, turn on us.
I have a feeling that unless we change course as a nation, that we will find ourselves in a similar situation as the Plymouth settlers did after those first few years at the mercy of The Almighty. God can always be found at the end of your rope. It is my hope that you will seek His face long before you get to that point but knowing full well, He will be there waiting nonetheless. Happy Thanksgiving from the Fullerton Informer and may The Lord open all of your eyes widely and bless you all on this special day, In Jesus name, Amen.
#1 by Anonymous on November 28, 2014 - 11:16 am
“We are all sinners, born into sin and inclined to do evil.”
What nonsense!
Ah yes. Freedom of religion. As long as your religion is Christianity and your god is Jesus Christ.
At the next council meeting, someone should request that a local rabbi, or a Jain, or a Yogi or a Muslim lead the opening prayer.
Let’s see how these right-wing zealots who preach personal freedoms and liberties feel about that.
#2 by Anonymous on November 28, 2014 - 9:11 am
Right wing zealots-That’s a good one. Friggin Bible thumpin’ freaks.
#3 by Joe Imbriano on November 28, 2014 - 2:06 pm
“We are all sinners, born into sin and inclined to do evil.” Truth-look in the mirror
Set it up, let’s get ecumenical, and while your at it get in touch with Michele Garden who wants to get rid of all prayer at council meetings all together. The beauty of this Nation is that you can even worship satan if you wish.Since the phony churches don’t want to offend anyone anymore and tell the truth, our duty as Christians, is to warn EVERYONE of the consequences both spiritually and physically of denying His shed blood that takes away sin,and His resurrection. You are free to die in your sins and find out wait awaits you on the other side. Go ahead, you have been warned. It is not a popular message today because people like to live in sin. Which channel is your favorite? What is your forte? Fact is that their sin means more to them than The One who put 75,000 miles of circulatory system in their bodies. All that out the window for a life in the mire? Go figure. The entire satanic agenda is now out in the open, even here in our town where the FPD produced what I believe amounts to a snuff film, while they still sexually assault women and frame people while Apple 666 iPads are in every one of their children’s laps at school and at home plus the satanic xbox video games. Wait till the power goes out, the dollar dies or the richter scale starts rocking and see how well this so called civilized unregenerate unrepentant paganized society behaves.
You want to see what a world looks like without God? Turn on your TV and it will become reality soon enough. You will see. Go look at the video game store and study the terrain in all of those games. It is coming to a neighborhood near you. Your children and grandchildren are already acting it out while getting their brains turned to mush and their souls sucked to hell and getting sterilized in the process with the wireless gaming systems. Don’t forget about with the iPads you and Michelle Garden are in love with.
See you Tuesday night.
#4 by do it, then on November 28, 2014 - 2:46 pm
Absolutely! Request your rabbi, or jain or yogi or mullah. For heaven’s sake, just do it!!!!! Stop your bellowing.
If you don’t do it at the next council meeting, you are disingenuous and full of baloney. We will all be waiting.