Happy Thanksgiving
Thanksgiving Is about Coming Together
Whether getting together with family, friends, or strangers we’re meeting for the first time on Thanksgiving Day, it’s about coming together to offer thanks to God. It’s a time of group thankfulness, of rallying together to give thanks. Coming together is so important because it builds unity with one another, the kind that helps us have the desire to help each other through difficult times.
Hebrews 10:24,25 explains, “And let us consider how we may spur one another on toward love and good deeds, not giving up meeting together, as some are in the habit of doing, but encouraging one another—and all the more as you see the Day approaching.”
Coming together with thankfulness to God helped the Pilgrims and Native Americans to better understand each other. It was such a simple act, yet it helped to lay a foundation for working together.
In America’s history, our Founders understood this principle. During the American Revolution, while America was struggling to be set free from British rule, the Continental Congress called colonists to national days of thanksgiving, where they joined together to thank God for His sovereign protection over their troops. They recognized how national thankfulness helps to bring people together and build unity among a diverse population.
1 Corinthians 14:26 emphasizes the value and importance of people coming together. “What then shall we say, brothers and sisters? When you come together, each of you has a hymn, a word of instruction, a revelation, a tongue, or an interpretation. Everything must be done so that the church may be built up.”