Thanksgiving

Last night was a great night! We started off with a church wide Thanksgiving meal, then headed upstairs for The Harvest youth service. The meal was unbelievable, with fried turkey & honey ham, not to forget 2 whole tables with just desserts. Good stuff!

The Harvest teaching was on changing our perspective of Thanksgiving. Granted we need to be thankful to the Lord for what He has blessed us with, but most importantly, we need to be thankful for what He has DONE for us. We need to be thankful the Lord chose to make us in His image, He sent His ONE & ONLY son Jesus to die on the cross for our sins, and that He gives us the hope of eternal life with Him through the free gift of salvation. So I want to challenge us all this Thanksgiving to focus more on what God has DONE for us more than what He has given & blessed us with.

The Harvest closed with a visual of a blank canvas. A blank canvas that represents purity & innocence. And then the canvas became covered with spray paint, representing how ugly & dirty sin makes our lives. But underneath all that filth, Jesus has REDEEMED us by dying on the cross & being raised from the dead. How Jesus has removed our filth, canceled our sin, and makes us pure through His blood & salvation. Below is a picture of that canvas, and I want all us to be mindful that Jesus takes it all away. He is the one who has paid the price & all He demands is we live for Him. Let Jesus take your sin & filth away, and live REDEEMED. Amen.

JV