A man named Robert Orben told about an idea some may want to consider on Thanksgiving Day or, for that matter, any day of the year you might cook a turkey. He said, “Last year we let the kids make Thanksgiving dinner and it really brought home how unimaginative my wife and I have been all these years. Not once had we ever thought of using Twinkies for stuffing” (source unidentified). Who wouldn’t be thankful for that turkey?!
How thankful are you? Have you checked your “G-Q” lately? That is, your gratitude quotient? How many times have you said “thank you” to someone today? Even more searching, have you said “thank you” to anyone so far today? And most searching of all, have you told God “thank you” even once today? Hundreds of years before Christ ascended Golgotha & allowed Himself to be nailed to a cross for each of us, an Old Testament saint wrote, “It is good to give thanks to the Lord” (Psalm 92:1a). Later, in Psalm 100, the Bible writer’s feelings of gratitude for God’s greatness and goodness overwhelmed him and spilled out in an ongoing call to the world – “Enter into His gates with thanksgiving, And into His courts with praise. Be thankful to Him, and bless His name. For the Lord is good; His mercy is everlasting, And His truth endures to all generations.” Beautiful to read! Even more beautiful if your own heart is overwhelmed with that same sense of God’s greatness and goodness. Especially we who live this side of the cross where He who was rich for our sakes became poor so that we through His poverty can be rich (see 2 Corinthians 8:9).
The New Testament repeatedly calls Christians to give God thanks. We don’t have space to quote all the passages. Take time to check out these if you want a good sample – Ephesians 5:20; Philippians 4:6; Colossians 1:12; 2:7; 3:15b; 4:2; 1 Thessalonians 5:18; Hebrews 13:15. Read just these few and you will learn (or be reminded) that Christians are called, and dare I say it, commanded, to give thanks – not as a holiday but as a lifestyle.
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Thank God for – lungs that can breathe to grace we receive; for legs that can walk to tongues that can talk; for food on the table to faith in the heart; for health to houses to happiness to holiness; for joy to jeans to jobs to Jesus!; for family to friends to fun to faith to forgiveness of our sins; for money we receive to minds that can believe; for cars we drive to clothes we wear to the character of Christ whose image we are privileged to bear; to the church Jesus purchased with His own blood – God has indeed loaded us with benefits. Say it often and say it loud and say it proud, “Thanks be to God!”
–Dan Gulley
