Rethinking the Virtue of Thankfulness

The Thanksgiving holiday encourages people to step back and consider again the matter of their own thankfulness. Gratitude is a universally-recognized human virtue, and yet all people struggle to be thankful. Christians, especially, understand the central place of thankfulness in human existence, and yet tend to perceive and practice it in the way non-Christians do, with the exception that they direct their gratitude to the God of the Bible. This message examines the issue of thankfulness as the Scriptures understand it, and what it means to be a truly thankful people.