Monday, November 21, 2016

Thanksgiving Should be Volitional


Thanksgiving Should be Volitional

Leviticus 22:29, “And when ye will offer a sacrifice of thanksgiving unto the LORD, offer it at your own will.”

            Ratsown (7522) translated “ means one’s delight, desire, favor, or pleasure.  Today is the day set aside in the US to give thanks to God for His bountiful mercies and blessings to mankind.  We all acknowledge that God knows everything past , present and even the future.  So, when a Christian musics praise and thanksgiving to God, our heavenly Father knows whether we mean it or not.  This Scripture states very clearly that thank offerings must be free-will offerings.  Volitional thanksgiving means that this act is the result of a Christian making a conscious choice or decision.   

            On this day which has been designated a day of thanksgiving, we should offer sacrifices of thanksgiving.  We should make these sacrifices of thanksgiving genuine worship acts that are our response to the goodness and mercy of our loving Savior.  Christian musicians should not render these musical offerings as acts of obligation but rather acts of our love responses to our loving forgiving God.

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