{"id":1907,"date":"2022-11-24T00:45:06","date_gmt":"2022-11-24T00:45:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/empoweringaction.org\/?p=1907"},"modified":"2022-11-24T00:45:06","modified_gmt":"2022-11-24T00:45:06","slug":"thanksgiving","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/empoweringaction.org\/es\/thanksgiving\/","title":{"rendered":"Happy Thanksgiving!"},"content":{"rendered":"<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-post\" data-elementor-id=\"1907\" class=\"elementor elementor-1907\" data-elementor-post-type=\"post\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-2cdd4e87 elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"2cdd4e87\" data-element_type=\"section\" data-e-type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-6c8672f7\" data-id=\"6c8672f7\" data-element_type=\"column\" data-e-type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-46c2b7dd elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"46c2b7dd\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p>As we prepare to celebrate Thanksgiving, a holiday designated as \u201ca day of public thanksgiving and prayer,\u201d let us find inspiration in the commentary of Charles Spurgeon below on Deuteronomy 8:3-6 regarding humanity\u2019s propensity to forget God\u2019s mercies:<\/p><p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><em>We trace our joys in the sand, but we write our afflictions on marble. <\/em><\/p><p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><em>\u00a0<\/em><em>We forget the streams of mercy, never ceasing, which flow so continually parallel with our pathway. <\/em><\/p><p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><em>\u00a0<\/em><em>If we thus, ungratefully forget, it should cause us serious reflections when we see that God does not forget. <\/em><\/p><p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><em>Here in this Book He brings to His people\u2019s memories all the mercies they have received, because they were always present before His own mind. <\/em><\/p><p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><em>\u00a0<\/em><em>The child may forget the kindness of its mother, but the mother does not forget what she bore, and what she has sacrificed for her child. <\/em><\/p><p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><em>\u00a0<\/em><em>The friend may forget what he has received, but it is not likely that the benefactor will forget what he has bestowed. <\/em><\/p><p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><em>\u00a0<\/em><em>If God\u2019s memory, therefore, records all that He has given me, let me be ashamed to let my memory suffer these things to slip. <\/em><\/p><p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><em>\u00a0<\/em><em>What God counts worthy of His Divine recollection let me record on the pages of my memory, and often let me peruse the record.<\/em><\/p><p>Let us give thanks to the LORD for His faithful love and His wonderful works for all humanity! 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