The definition of holiday is from the Old English haligdaeg which literally means “holy day”.  Even more awesome is the Old English word halig for “holy” means to be “whole” or “unimpaired”.
 Let us always remember and never forget that not only are Thanksgiving and Christmas holy days but that everyday of your life is a holy day and everyday of your life you should seek to be whole in body, mind and spirit for this is what holy truly means.
 Let us look at what we have done to our holy or whole days.
 Thanksgiving is a day to thank God and praise Him for His provision in our life.  It is a day to remember how awesome and good He is and how worthy He is to be praised.   How is our appreciation and gratitude lifted up to Him?
  Is it a day of fasting and prayer, a day of stillness and meditation, a day of reflection on how He has met our every need?  Is it a day offering our body as a living sacrifice holy and pleasing to HIM–being a spiritual act of worship?  Or is it a day of self indulgence and gluttony?  A day of feeding the flesh?
 As a church, we so desire to see miracles, signs and wonders and operate in the spiritual gifts as the early church did but let us not forget the pattern of the early church——they devoted themselves to the fellowship.
 And the command of “be separate”.   God’s people are not called to be married to the world system but to come out  to be separate.  God’s chosen ones are called to be in the world but not of the world.
 Never forget the more you live like a “normal American” the more you will get what normal Americans get.  Over 9 out of 10 normal Americans will  die from heart disease, cancer, COPD (lung disease) and diabetes.  One out of 8 normal Americans will get cancer in their lifetime.  Over 30 million normal Americans take antidepressants or anti-anxiety medication.
  Is this normal for God’s people?
 Absolutely not!  But if His people choose to live married to the world system and chose to indulge the flesh and feed the ego-filled, world-filled religion-filled old  mind/old nature, then we will be just as the world is–suffering, sick and dying.
 Isn’t time for us to be who He created us to be, to come out from amongst them and be separate?  Isn’t it time we obey what He has put in our heart and become whole in body, mind and spirit?  Isn’t time for us to treat everyday of every moment of our life as holy, and offer our wholeness to Him as a living sacrifice?  Isn’t it time for us to be what He called us to be–a royal priesthood and a holy (whole in body, mind and spirit) nation?