Not the Best Kind of Thankful!
Did you ever consider that there could be a good and better kind of thankful? This was a Thanksgiving thought I had not considered. I hadn’t really thought of it much. All my life I was told to be thankful for things, so I was. The Bible says be thankful, so I was. (Let me make it clear that I’ve not been perfectly thankful all the time. I’m sure you could have already guessed that.) So, how could “being thankful” possibly ever be less than best?
This week, I was challenged by this Thanksgiving thought. There is a good and a better kind of “thankful,” and it’s worthy of our attention. Many years in the past, our family has shared around the dinner table at Thanksgiving, each person telling of one thing they’re thankful for. I thought it was great. But looking at it now, I was missing something really important.
What Was Missing?
I was missing the object of our thankfulness. It’s not enough to be thankful for our family...