Thanksgiving is next week and surely our blessings are on our minds. Our secular culture places an emphasis on material prosperity as a way to judge whether or not we have anything for which we should be thankful. Our contention here is that our thankfulness ought to be primarily for our spiritual blessings. We must add that this thankfulness for God’s blessings must not be limited to the day of our national holiday of Thanksgiving.
There are many spiritual blessings (Ephesians 1:3) and reams of paper and gallons of ink would be required to list and reflect on them. But there is one I hope you will think about with me: The blessing of how God made us. David provided the insight:
“I will praise thee; for I am fearfully and wonderfully made: marvelous are thy works; and that my soul knoweth right well” (Psalm 139:14). Key among the characteristics with which we are equipped by God is the quality we call the mind.
Thus we are able to understand Paul’s words of Philippians 3:14: “I press toward the mark for the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus.” We know what this means. We study the Book and put it in action in everyday life. We live like Jesus wants us to do.
Let us be thankful that God has made us able to do this very thing.
We pray everyone has a safe and Happy Thanksgiving.