Gratitude

Gratitude Is The

Gift You Give To Those

Who

Reached Out And

Changed

Your Life.

“And one of them, when he saw that he was healed, returned, and with a loud voice glorified God, and fell down on his face at His feet, giving Him thanks.” Luke 17:15-19 (NKJV)

Openly acknowledging Jesus of Nazareth as the Lamb of God, the hoped-for Messiah, John the Baptist was grateful for the role God gave him, exceedingly thankful, even as his own ministry began to decrease, while Christ’s would exponentially increase! Jealousy would have no part within this divine connection that set the stage for God’s greatest Gift to all mankind.

Perhaps more than any other man in all of Scripture, David also understood gratitude. In Psalm 119, David penned, “I will thank You by living as I should.” You and I cannot repay God for what He does for us. There is nothing we can do to return all God bestows upon our lives except to be grateful. Gratitude, however, is different than repayment. We live for God out of gratitude for what He does for us. There is no greater way to express our reverence to God than to possess a heart of gratitude.

Our reverence toward God and His Word is not a form of repayment; it is the proof that we recognize we owe Him our very lives. Please carefully consider these three questions:
Is it too costly for you to be thankful?

What are the things for which you are thankful?
Like David, why not thank the Lord by living as you should?
Let me remind you of the words of the Apostle Paul, “And so, dear brothers and sisters, I plead with you to give your bodies to God. Let them be a living and holy sacrifice—the kind He will accept. When you think of what He has done for you, is this too much to ask?”

By: Dr Rob Thompson