One week from today is Thanksgiving. I saw this “horn of plenty” yesterday as Debbie and I returned from lunch. I have been preaching a Revival in Lucedale, Mississippi.

Today’s Lesson …

The actual word is “cornucopia,” Latin for “horn of abundance.” And it has become a symbol of an overflow of blessings.

Did you know the term “showers of blessing” is Biblical? Ezekiel the Prophet uses it, under the inspiration of the Holy Spirit. God promises of repentant Israel that some day: “I will make them and the places round about my hill a blessing; and I will cause the shower to come down in his season; there shall be SHOWERS OF BLESSING.” Ezekiel 34:26

Also Malachi uses a similar (“horn of plenty”) clause (word picture) when He quotes God as saying … “I will open you the windows of heaven, and pour you out a blessing, that there shall not be room enough to receive it.” Wow, Malachi 3:10, overflow!

I am just saying today that … GOD IS GOOD!

The very word used for “Grace” in the New Testament, “charis” in Greek, is defined by one lexicon as: “that which affords joy, pleasure, delight, sweetness, charm, loveliness.”

This is, as John Newton wrote long ago, “AMAZING!”

Has God been good to you?

If so, thank Him today. Mentally “fill” your horn of plenty, counting your blessings one by one!

Paul did teach us (really it’s a command) … “In every thing give thanks.” 1st Thessalonians 5:18, where the verb “give thanks” is “eucharisteo,” grammatically referring to God’s “good grace.”

Brimming with the blessings of God.

By the way … should one’s “cornucopia” be quite empty, God is still good.

Anyone agree?

— Dr. Mike Bagwell

 

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