Thanksgiving is Really Nesting Farm Animals! part 2

Previously, we visited about how the Greek language can be like "Nesting Farm Animals". When Greek words are examined closely, word chains (words within words) form links that convey a whole scope of actions & emotions. When the original Greeks used such words, many times they communicated a short story. It might be comparable to the difference in you saying "Here's a cup", and you saying "Here's a cup for you I made with my hands because I love you." The Greek language combined words to do just that. Today, we will look at the Greek word for "Thanksgiving" and see what the "Nesting Friends" are when it's opened up. If you remember how our Nesting Farm Animals worked, inside the Cow was the Horse, inside the Horse was the Pig, and inside the Pig was the Chicken. Here is the Word Chain "nesting" for Thanksgiving.
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1. On the outside is thanksgiving or expressing thanks


2. Inside thanksgiving is mindful of favors or full of thanks


3. Inside thankful is well done forgiveness


4. Inside forgiveness is grace


5. Inside grace is joyful.

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So, when you pull it all together, you discover that Thanksgiving is expressing the thanks that fills you as you are mindful of the favors from God because you're well forgiven thru grace and full of joy.
Wow!
That's a mouthful...or perhaps...a heartful? If you notice on both ends of the word chain are emotions. Joy on one end and thankfulness on the other. The "reasons" for both are sandwiched in between. What a beautiful way to exemplify the bonding of heart & head in our relationship with God. I feel because I know what God has done, is doing, and will do to me, for me, and with me. Is it any surprise that Paul wrote:

Colossians 2:7 ...Let your lives overflow with thanksgiving for all He has done.

When those early Christians said or read thanksgiving: they felt joy, as they thought of grace, and forgiveness, and everything God had blessed them with. And what happened then? It filled their hearts with so much gratefulness and thankfulness that it overflowed. The overflow is what God receives. He doesn't take any of the joy or thankfulness or gratitude from our hearts. He only gathers in what our hearts can't hold anymore. That is what adds to His glory...to His splendor. That is the "joy" fruit of the Spirit that we bear to Him...for Him. May I live my life with thanksgiving overflowing from my heart to God.