Be Thankful!

I know some who are not grateful. Do you? It is so grating on me and I can only imagine how God feels about it. He does not like ungratefulness. He loves thankfulness. He loves everyone, even those who don't love Him. He even loves those who call Him by Name (Jesus) but are ungrateful to Him. I have discovered in my personality a couple of things that trigger my "petpeeve" alarm.... one is unreasonableness, and the other is ungratefulness. These attitudes grate on me and I lean fully on Jesus and His grace to help me speak the truth only in love. If I love these people who can't see the blessing, and Jesus loves them even more, then Oh how that must make Him feel when they ignore His best blessings to them! He gave His very life for them!

Ungratefulness is an injustice. No matter how much one may explain the thankfulness one should have, the sour Christian cannot see it. This is frustrating to many of us. Therefore I am sure God makes full use of His Longsuffering to deal with such people.

 God longs for thankful people. If you receive a gift,  in church or other places, be thankful for it... don't criticize it for being the wrong colour or type. Don't make an issue centered around you. It really is not about you. It's not about me. It is about Jesus. It is about what you and I can do to serve others and how we can give God our best by operating in His Spirit.

In case an ungrateful person is also reading this along with my other readers, I will reiterate: It is not about you. It does not matter what you think is "fair" or not. And yes, I meant to type that.

 It doesn't make a "mature" Christian when we constantly complain and live with the stone of ungratefulness scratching our eye, dulling our eyesight. And yes, a stone can permanently damage your vision. Ungratefulness is blinding, and it makes the perfectly good gift seem terrible to the sour Christian. They cannot see how good they have it, because they cannot see! Ungratefulness has scratched their eyes!
It is time to lift the eyes, wash them in the Word of God, get your eyesight back, and behold the Glory of the Lord. Be thankful for the many many blessings we have in our lives each and every day.

We will please the Lord by living by faith, and being thankful. Put on your "Gospel Glasses" and see Jesus! Be Thankful to Him!
~Pastor Curtis