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A Prayer for the Beginning of Thanksgiving Week

     So then, just as you received Christ Jesus as Lord, continue to live your lives in him, rooted and built up in him, strengthened in the faith as you were taught, and overflowing with thankfulness. Col. 2:6-7 

     Dear Lord Jesus, on this Lord’s Day before Thanksgiving, we declare our desire to give you the quality and quantity of thanks of which you are eternally worthy. Not like a slow drip, babbling brook, or a meandering stream, but joyfully erupting and overflowing thankfulness.

     Our motivation is manifold. From the nanosecond we trusted you as Savior and Lord, we were fully forgiven, and firmly rooted in your righteousness and love. Just as we can’t add one iota to your righteousness, we can never be separated from your love. You’ve already rescued us from the penalty of sin; you’re continually setting us free from the power of sin; and one Day you’ll deliver us from the very presence of sin.

     Jesus, we now live in you, and are being built up and strengthened by you—maturing by the same grace that saved us; being liberated for the race that you’ve set before us; loving others as you so radically love us.

     You’ve freed us from our little stories and fiefdoms of self, and have written us into your big Story of redeeming love and cosmic restoration. You’ve made us citizens of heaven, and heirs of life in the new heaven and new earth. Your generosity is off-the-charts glorious, and your gospel is beyond-all-imagining magnificent. Absolutely nothing can alter or deter your will plan for our lives and your purposes for the universe.

     Oh, how we’d love to be already done with all carping and droning, all whining and complaining, all boohoo-ing and Eeyore-ing—and with every other expression of ingratitude. But until that Day, rise up within us as a fountain of grace and artesian spring of life, for the benefit of all and the praise of your glory. So very Amen we gratefully pray, in your glorious and grace-filled name.

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