I’m now winding down now from a long day at my in-laws and feeling very thankful to be home with my family. We are watching the Disney movie Cars and I am contemplating another piece of pumpkin pie.
In Tabletalk magazine today, the scripture reading was Ephesians 2:1-10 and I’ve reproduced it below with a change in pronouns to make it more personal. Read this aloud to yourself and tell me that you don’t feel thankful.
May God’s blessings be upon you this Thanksgiving.
And I was dead in my trespasses and sins, in which I formerly walked according to the course of this world, according to the prince of the power of the air, of the spirit that is now working in the sons of disobedience. Among them I also formerly lived in the lusts of my flesh, indulging the desires of the flesh and of the mind, and was by nature a child of wrath, even as the rest. But God, being rich in mercy, because of His great love with which He loved me, even when I was dead in my transgressions, made me alive together with Christ (by grace I have been saved), and raised me up with Him, and seated me with Him in the heavenly places in Christ Jesus, so that in the ages to come He might show the surpassing riches of His grace in kindness toward me in Christ Jesus. For by grace I have been saved through faith; and that not of myself, it is the gift of God; not as a result of works, so that I may not boast.
