Why America Should be Thankful with Fred Coulter

Why America Should Be Thankful

Today, on the Two Mikes, we welcomed back, Mr. Fred Coulter, who is the minister of the

Biblical Church of God in Hollister, California, to speak about the meaning of Thanksgiving, not

only as a holiday but as a key part of the Christian life. Mr. Coulter explained that long before

there was day in November reserved for celebration of the the national holiday of Thanksgiving,

the inhabitants of the American colonies – British subjects until 1776 – practiced the act of

thanksgiving often over the course of each year. At harvest time, they would thank God for

what their farming had yielded. When new members of the communities arrived in boats from

England, Americans thanked God for their safe passage and for the augmentation of their

community. In violent encounters with the native Indians, the Christian colonists would pray for

God to give them victory in battle, and if they lost they would ask God to bless the lives of those

who were lost, and presumably wonder whether God was displeased with them and therefore

failed to give them victory. Overall, as observers of the hard country in which they lived, one in

which their survival was threatened by any number of factors – including illness, war, bad

crops, and severe weather-- the colonists perceived it to be essential that they frequently thank

God for his ongoing delivery of the means of their survival.

In many ways, Mr. Coulter noted, the colonists believed that it was indispensable for their

community – and all communities and countries in the world – to thank God for their successes

and for God’s protection in times of trouble. For America, it seems, the public’s satisfaction

with a single day of Thanksgiving per year – established by Mr. Lincoln as the last Thursday of

November – is sufficient. Indeed, only part of that day is devoted to thanksgiving, and more

often than not the giving of thanks is for a wonder dinner to gird the eaters for the mayhem of

the Black Friday sales that stand only 24 hours in the future.

The celebration of Thanksgiving Day is meant to encourage thanks to God, and the celebration

of family and community. But it certainly was not meant by Mr. Lincoln to be the only time in

the year in which Americans would offer thanksgiving to their creator. Indeed, such an attitude

would have been regarded by the American colonists as a long-step on the road to perdition.

That is, the road that America is now traveling, perhaps with accelerating speed. God’s words in

the Bible define the necessity for his people to live always in the manner he so clearly laid out

the Ten Commandments. Without obedience to those commandments, people drift far and fast

away from the Lord’s protection and support. His words and those of his Apostles on more than

one occasion warn that those people and countries who abandon the commandments’ divine

guidance will find over time that “the strangers living among you, will get above you very high”

adding that “those who hate you shall rule over you.” It seems that we in America might well

find that we have drifted too far from the commandments’ demands and are now slowly

realizing that many of those who govern us, actually are lovers only of themselves, power, and

money, and hold those they govern in utter contempt. This sad story of the Americans’ gradual

abandonment of their creator is now apparent to all who can see reality. Can it be reversed?

Think about that on this Thanksgiving and recall that God has left us a ready to tool with which

to build our return path toward Him, and that the crux of that process it lies in the simple word

repentance.

Mr. Coulter has written many excellent books that are available for no charge at

https://www.truthofgod.com or https://cbcg.church. Just request your choice via e-mail and it will be

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