Parades 11-27-2024

If you’re like our family Thanksgiving is rooted in tradition, one of which is gathering in front of the TV and watching the Macy’s Thanksgiving Parade. Kids love it, so do I, even with no kids around. Parades are meant for celebrations. Like the soldiers fit for battle parading before King David. (2 Samuel 18) Or the parade of Palm Sunday, Jesus entering Jerusalem riding a donkey to shouts of “blessed is he who come in the name of the Lord”. (Luke 13) There is however one parade at which I do not plan to be a spectator but a participant. This parade begins with a loud trumpet blast followed with the heavens rolled back and the appearance of The Lord Jesus joined by the angels, met with occupants of the graves of the righteous and finally the living faithful taking their place in the march of victory. (1 Thessalonians 4) What’s the date and time of this parade? No one knows. (1 Thessalonians 5:6-8) So then, let us be awake and sober, putting on faith and love as a breastplate, and the hope of salvation as a helmet. That’s our invitation to the parade! PK