Hear we are on the Sunday before Thanksgiving, and I wonder if you feel very thankful. Some would reply, “Brother Bill, some of us are more thankful than others. It depends on one’s circumstances.” You know, it’s easy to celebrate Thanksgiving when your family is healthy, your income is ample, your stocks are ascending, your favorite team is headed to a bowl game, your sinuses have overcome the Memphis grunge, and your aches and pains are minimal. But that kind of thanksgiving can be awfully superficial. God is almost superfluous in such a celebration. It’s often just a matter of congratulating ourselves on how well we have done.

Real thanksgiving, biblical thanksgiving, is much greater and deeper than that. It is based not on our circumstances, but on God’s sufficiency; not on our produc…