Thanksgiving: How much is enough?

1 Thess. 5:18, “Give thanks in all circumstances, for this is God’s will for you in Christ Jesus.”

When I thank God for whatever situation I am in and I mean whatever situation. I put ‘self’ off of me. Whatever is attached to ‘self’ goes with it. This is God’s will for me in His Son. The old has gone, 2 Cor. 5:17. God’s will and willingness in me enables me to be thankful and change my focus off of me on to Him. His focus and will becomes mine, Phil. 2:13, Gal. 1:16.

If I live with ingratitude or without thanksgiving in my heart then I do not have enough. Jesus is enough. He is more than sufficient. In Him, all fullness of the Godhead dwells bodily. “Enough” is a molecular word that cannot compare to Him in whom all things hold together, Col. 1:17. If I do not have enough then something is owed to me because I have not received it yet. Otherwise, it would be enough. His love is enough because I do not owe Him. He paid the price in full and said, “It is finished” or “Shelem.” I do not owe Him. His love does not keep record of any wrongs, 1 Cor. 13:5.

Therefore, I am ever-grateful and thankful for God’s only Son. This grace of thanksgiving overflows. It enables me and also whosoever that believes that He is, Eph. 1:19, Rom. 1:16. We express and manifest thanksgiving by faith because “The just shall live by faith.” We have understanding and knowledge unto godliness by faith, Titus 1:1. This knowledge becomes what we know and no longer faith. It becomes who we are in Him. Our lives are hid in Him, having a righteousness apart from dead works. A righteousness that is by revelation of Him according to His word.