It’s Thanksgiving eve and many folks are planning their Black Friday excursions and getting ready for meals and family on Thursday.  We live in a blessed land that has been filled with opportunities and freedom.

I’ve heard a lot of the normal-for-the-season thank speak.   Folks are grateful for their families, homes, health and all the good things this great free country has allowed them to experience.  That is all well and good.  However, I never hear anyone say to whom they are thankful.  Folks say how glad they are to have some good thing; but there is nothing more than an awareness of possessions, certainly not an acknowledgement of a personal God from whom comes every good and perfect gift.  There is no humility; and, of course, there is no responsibility.

Real thankfulness carries responsibility to the Giver.  I think that is one of the reasons we want a generic Thanksgiving that allows us to celebrate just how pious we are in recognizing we have nice circumstances.  Sorry, that doesn’t cut it.  We have been blessed, and God is the Giver of the blessings.  It is to Him we owe (that’s right … owe) our thanks, and it is to Him we will be accountable as stewards of all that we have received.

1 Timothy 1:17  Now unto the King eternal, immortal, invisible, the only wise God, be honor and glory for ever and ever. Amen.

Happy Thanksgiving.