Happy Thanksgiving

Thus David congratulates the man and pronounces a blessing on him to whom God credits righteousness apart from the works he does: Blessed and happy and to be envied are those whose iniquities are forgiven and whose sins are covered up and completely buried. Blessed and happy and to be envied is the person of whose sin the Lord will take no account nor reckon it against him. Romans 4:6-8

For the law of the Spirit of life [which is] in Christ Jesus [the law of our new being] has freed me from the law of sin and of death. Romans 8:2

This Thanksgiving we in America, and also for our brothers and sisters in other countries who don’t celebrate Thanksgiving, should celebrate our complete and total freedom through Christ. We should all be so thankful that we are righteous apart from any work that we ever do. Every one of our iniquities and sins are completely forgiving us because of what Jesus accomplished. Our sins aren’t just forgiven by our Father either, they are completely forgotten by our Him. Jesus, Who has been given all judgment, John 5:22, will never bring them up against us and He will never cause us to give and account of them. Jesus came and set us free from the Law of Sin and Death. That means we are completely free from being weakened by our shortcomings. 

We are now new creatures in Christ, everything is now new for us. We are to be envied because of what our Father has freely given us. This complete freedom from sin and all of sins consequences is what grace is. We didn’t deserve it, but yet we have it. We now enjoy and live in the glorious Truth that all things now work out for our good, Romans 8:28. This is what we as Christians should be thankful for, because this freedom in Christ is what allows us to be used by our Father to go into all of the world and heal the sick, raise the dead, cast out demons, and drink deadly things and not be harmed. This freedom from sin is what allows our Father to cause us to serve as Jesus serves. 

We are blessed this day and every day in the power of our Father’s might!