Making a Big Deal of Thanksgiving Day 2

We started looking yesterday in Numbers 10 at the instructions given to Israel during the wilderness wanderings about trumpets.  Much like the bugler in an army, the different sounds of the trumpets meant different things. We pick up in verse 
7 But when the assembly is to be gathered together, you shall blow a long blast, but you shall not sound an alarm. 8 And the sons of Aaron, the priests, shall blow the trumpets. The trumpets shall be to you for a perpetual statute throughout your generations. 9 And when you go to war in your land against the adversary who oppresses you, then you shall sound an alarm with the trumpets, that you may be remembered before the Lord your God, and you shall be saved from your enemies. 10 On the day of your gladness also, and at your appointed feasts and at the beginnings of your months, you shall blow the trumpets over your burnt offerings and over the sacrifices of your peace offerings. They shall be a reminder of you before your God: I am the Lord your God.”

Lest we get the wrong idea here: the purpose of the trumpets was not to wake up God and ask Him for His blessing. The trumpets were a reminder to the people to think about God and be thankful: thankful that they did not go out into battle alone; thankful that when we offer Him our thanksgiving and praise, we are worshipping and thanking the true and living God.  Today, may we hear the trumpets sounding: God has blessed us with so much both physically and spiritually. May we gather together to give Him thanks.