I want to share with you what I will call “the gratitude demonstration.” In a Sunday school class a few years ago, there was a powerful demonstration. One brother volunteered to be a part of the demonstration and was simply given the gift of a candy bar.  After he was given the candy bar, he was asked, “are you happy with that gift?” He responded “yes” and sat down.

A second volunteer was called up. This time the teacher pulled out a twenty-dollar bill and offered it to the second volunteer who was ready to graciously accept the gift. The teacher stopped and turned to the first volunteer and said, “Are you still grateful for your gift?” I don’t remember his response, but a powerful point had been made.

Here is one of the lessons that I learned from the demonstration. We are often grateful—as we should be—for a simple blessing. While we are rejoicing or celebrating, we forget that God still has more to offer. He still has greater blessings to give. We must be grateful, but we must never be complacently content.

Complacently content means we don’t have goals, aspirations, or desires to do more, to grow, to increase “in wisdom and stature, and in favour with God and man” (Luke 2:52). God has made hundreds of promises and will deliver on all of them if we are not complacently content. God has said, “For I will fulfill my promises which I have made unto the children of men” (2 Nephi 10:17).