Isn’t it nice to back up a little, hang loose, let go and let God?
Ah, the joys of full surrender to the divine. That prince of preachers from the 1800’s Hugh Metropolitan Tabernacle in London, Charles Haddon Spurgeon, couldn’t have said it better to his congregation of 6,000 :
“Stand at the foot of the cross, and count those purple drops by which you have been cleansed. See the thorn-crown; mark his scourged (whipped) shoulders, still gushing with crimsoned rills ... And if you don’t lie prostate on the ground before that cross, you have never seen it.” What a Savior!
Oh beloved believer, “those purple drops by which you have been cleansed.” How perfectly I John 1:7-9 explains “the blood of Jesus Christ his (God’s) son cleanseth us all from sin ... If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us of our sins, and cleanse us from all righteousness.”
No wonder the evangelist and personal soul winner top notches in his song book and hymnal; “Are You Washed in the Blood?”
Realize please, above are but a few paragraphs that “talk turkey,” as the saying goes, during the Thanksgiving season.
Christmas is coming so realize “Jesus is the reason for the season.” He is key to the understand any and all scripture. Read continually and find out.
The word of God is what we feed ourselves spiritually.
“Desire the sincere milk of the word that ye many grow Thereby: If so be ye have tested that the Lord is gracious” ( I Peter 2:2-3). Even pass the platter father. “Strong meat belongeth to them that of full age.” (I Peter 5:14).
There are those more seasoned veterans of faith exercised unto holiness and soul winning.
Whether your Thanksgiving menu includes TV, football, family reunion, community Thanksgiving dinner or comforted solo meal, only be thankful enough to “ believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and thou shalt be save.” (Acts 16:31).
Vern Bender is the pastor at the People’s Bible Baptist Church in Newton
