Thanksgiving Miracles

Thanksgiving is a time to appreciate all the amazing gifts God has given us. These gifts come in many different forms. Large and small, physical and spiritual, known and unknown.

 One of the forms these come in are miracles. I did a review on the song Miracles by Colton Dixon. Although, I was not very nice about it. In my research it seemed that one of the desired points of the song was that miracles are not always huge, massive, improbable things. But that there are indeed small miracles all around us.

 John 2:11 shows us the purpose of miracles.

 What Jesus did here in Cana of Galilee was the first of the signs through which he revealed his glory; and his disciples believed in him.

 Whether you call them miracles or not, we do see God’s power everywhere and I believe we all have stories of that experience. One example from my life was before an early morning Christmas party for work. I was using my phone as an alarm at the time and to this day it has only turned itself off overnight that one time. This meant I was running late to the party that I was planning on being early for. On my way I was unable to turn left at the light I needed to because of a large accident. The accident involved one of the vehicles from my work and I am happy for the miracle of my boss being alive, but also the phone that turned itself off keeping me from being the person in the turn lane when someone ran the red light at over 100 miles per hour.

 My example has two miracles one large and one smaller but the smaller one seems to have had equally large implications. I am very thankful for both of them.

 We are called to be thankful for more than these things. 1 Thessalonians 5:8 says

 Give thanks in all circumstances; for this is God’s will for you in Christ Jesus.

 Psalm 107:1-3

 Oh give thanks to the Lord, for he is good,
    for his steadfast love endures forever!
Let the redeemed of the Lord say so,
    whom he has redeemed from trouble
and gathered in from the lands,
    from the east and from the west,
    from the north and from the south.

 We not only are to give thanks but to share what we are thankful for. One thing we can all be thankful for and seek to share is not simply the fact that Jesus died, but that he rose again. He defeated death and our sin with it. We get to be thankful and share that this world is not the end and that our sins have been paid for and we can spend eternity with the man that would do it just for you, Jesus.