True
Thanksgiving
Pastor
Cornelius R. Stam
Many people entertain only vague notions about thanksgiving, just as
they do about faith.
They confuse faith with optimism, will power, presumption, imagination,
and all sorts of other things. A doctor tells his patient that but for his
faith, he never would have come through his illness. Somehow the patient
was “just sure” he would recover. A smiling mother encourages
her married daughter to “have faith, that everything will turn out
all right.” But faith in God is believing God; believing what He has
said. True faith is based on the written Word of God (See Romans 10:17).
But unregenerate men have vague ideas about thanksgiving. A man escapes
some great harm and thanks his “lucky stars.” Another says:
“I’m grateful for a healthy body,” but to whom is he
grateful? He doesn’t say. In many cases it doesn’t even occur
to him to ask. He’s “just thankful”!
How refreshing, then, it is to open our Bibles, especially to the
Epistles of Paul, the chief of sinners, saved by grace, and to see him
giving thanks for specific blessings, and to a specific Person —
God!
“Giving thanks unto the Father, who hath made us meet [fit] to be partakers of the inheritance of the saints in light; Who hath delivered us from the power of darkness, and hath translated us into the kingdom of His dear Son” (Colossians 1:12,13).
“Thanks be unto God for His unspeakable gift!” (II Corinthians 9:15).
“Thanks be unto God, who giveth us the victory!” (I Corinthians 15:57).
“Thanks be unto God, who always causeth us to triumph!” (II Corinthians 2:14).
It is our prayer for all our readers that you may be especially thankful
for “the gift of God [which] is eternal life through Jesus Christ,
our Lord” (Romans 6:23).
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