Thanks

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Give thanks to God ~  for it is good :)

In every thing give thanks: for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus concerning you. 1 thessalonians 15:18

Unto thee, O God, do we give thanks, unto thee do we give thanks: for that thy name is near thy wondrous works declare.  psalm 75:1

Just One Crop....

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 The Crop of Acorns

There came a man in days of old

To hire a piece of land for gold,

And urged his suit in accents meek:

"One crop alone is all I seek;

The harvest o'er, my claim I'll yield

And to its lord return the field."

The owner some misgivings felt,

And coldly with the stranger dealt;

But found his last objection fail, 

And honeyed argument prevail;

So took the offered price in hand,

And for "one crop" leased out the land.

The wily tenant sneered with pride

And sowed the spot with acorns wide;

At first like tiny shoots they grew,

Then broad and wide their branches threw;

But long before those oaks could climb,

And finally reach their forest prime, 

The cheated landlord moldering lay,

Forgotten, with his kindred clay.

O ye whose years, unfolding fair,

Are fresh with youth and free from care,

should vice or laziness desire

The garden of your souls to hire,

No bargains make - reject the suit;

Don't let one seed the soil pollute.

My child, the first approach beware;

With firmness break the evil snare

Lest, as the acorns grew and throve

Into a sun-excluding grove,

Thy sins, a dark o'ershadowing tree,

Shut out the light of heaven from thee.

L.H. Sigourney

Thanksgiving

 

"Thanksgiving" by alegoricalarts.etsy.com

And she answered and said unto him, Yes, Lord: yet the dogs under the table eat of the children's crumbs.  

Mark 7:28

From our Gracious God, even the crumbs are most plentiful and abundantly enough - and how much more does He always shower us with?

Let all that I am praise the LORD; may I never forget the good things he does for me.  Psalm 103:2

live a good life?

Because it is not about how you live your life -

it is about Him living the perfect life, and sacrificing that perfect life to pay for the debt and punishment we all have incurred by sin.  You cannot live a good life, neither can I...though I thought I had....
Glad He did.  Do you know Him?
Romans 3:23  "For all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God."
Romans 6:23a  "...The wages of sin is death..."

Romans 6:23b  "...But the gift of God is eternal

life through Jesus Christ our Lord." 

Romans 5:8,  "God demonstrates His own love for us, in

that while we were yet sinners Christ died for us!"

Romans 10:13  "Whoever will call on the name of the Lord  will be saved!"  

Romans 10:9,10  "...If you confess with your mouth Jesus as Lord, and believe in your heart that God raised Jesus from the dead, you shall be saved; for with the heart man believes, resulting in righteousness, and with the mouth he confesses, resulting  in salvation."