1st Samuel 24 Happy Thanksgiving everyone!



  Good morning and Happy Thanksgiving to you and your whole family! It is a day to give thanks, and we have so much to be thankful for here in the USA; yet, few of us can see it through our opulent abundance and incredible comfort. We can’t see the forest for the trees! You see, we Americans usually own a home and two cars per household. That puts us well into the top five percent worldwide, really closer to the top 3%. Now, don’t think I made that up, those are real numbers fully researched through Super Grok AI in the wee hours this morning.

  We should not be ashamed of that wealth, just thankful for it. But it is so very easy to lose sight of how good we have it in all the comforts we have made for ourselves. So all that I am saying is we need to be thankful for wherever we are in that spectrum, because it could be a whole lot worse!

  I am not implying that material wealth is the only thing to be thankful for. This year, I have learned how much I took my health for granted. We also need to value people and relationships above material gains and health.

  Jesus died for us not to become comfortable and greedy! He died for us to grow in a kind of wealth that even the poorest, most deprived soul can benefit from! Even prisoners in solitary confinement can revel in this wealth! Don’t believe me about that prison comment? Just ask my friend Calvin @SEO_JAX on X!

  This wealth I am writing about is learning that God loves you enough to die for you so you can spend eternity with Him! That is the wealth of learning to love your neighbor as yourself! When you have a new life in Christ, you have the JOY of the Holy Spirit living inside of you, and through that, your material wealth becomes a tool to love others, so they too can join you in heaven and learn how to share the love of Christ with people down their block or even down their cell-block!

  Yes, we have a lot to be thankful for this Thanksgiving, if we can clear our eyes enough to see it! Click the link for Today’s Daily Bible Challenge, where we are listening to how David had Saul’s life in his hands and chose not to kill him out of Grace and obedience to God’s law! David’s next act of bravery is astonishing in the faith it took; pick this up in verse 24:8! David’s faith was in God, not Saul, at that point!


  Hope to hear from you soon!


Happy Thanksgiving!


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