Long before Thanksgiving Day was pronounced an official holiday in the United States in 1941, Charles Spurgeon spoke of thanksgiving hundreds of times in his writings and sermons. For Spurgeon, more than an annual event, thanksgiving was to be a way of life.
In a sermon delivered in 1915 in London’s Metropolitan Tabernacle, the Prince of Preachers encouraged thanks-living with these words:
Then, Brothers and Sisters, we ought to always be thanks-living. I think that is a better thing than thanksgiving.
How is this to be done?
By a general cheerfulness of manner, by an obedience to the command of Him by whose mercy we live, by a perpetual, constant, delighting ourselves in the Lord and submission of our desires to His mind.
Oh, I wish that our whole life might be a Psalm—that every day might be a stanza of a mighty poem!
That so from the day of our spiritual birth until we enter Heaven we might be pouring forth sacred sonnet in every thought, word and action of our lives.
Let us give Him thankfulness and thanks-living.
We at Empowering Action are particularly grateful for “Jesus, the founder and perfecter of our faith” (Hebrews 12:2) and your partnership in ministry for His glory (Philippians 1:5).
Happy Thanks-living!
