I appreciate the sentiment behind being thankful. There is so much to be grateful for. I think this is a common grace feeling that the Lord has granted us; both non-believers and believers have feelings of gratitude. Why do we feel gratitude? At the root of it, I examine my gratitude and I think there are many times where I am grateful because I really am thinking about how much worse I could have it. There are also many times that I'm grateful because of something I've done myself and I attribute it to the Lord because it's the right thing to do. Yeah, that's sort of the world's idea of being thankful.
I hope, I hope, I desperately hope...that I have more and more moments of true gratitude. True gratitude: giving thanks to God for saving me in the face of my total and complete depravity. True gratitude: realizing I have been adopted and am a daughter of the king and living confidently and humbly with this knowledge. True gratitude: knowing I deserve hell but seeing the narrow path before me and walking it because He led the way to know God with his death.
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