Season 6 Begins with Our Universal Call to Gratitude. 2

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Remembering the first time I said to myself in a sermon, "How did that pastor know what I was thinking?" After an exhaustive look at the Christian reasons for thanksgiving, John MacArthur said if you don't feel any gratitude right now in your life, surely you have loved ones, and you have reason to be thankful to God for how He works in their lives.

Wow, that became one of my "fallback" positions. Even if I was so glum that I had nothing to be thankful for (an unwarranted feeling), I moved to be grateful for His work in the lives of the people I love.

Some reasons we need to be reminded of our gratitude to the Holy God are:

We are forgetful, live-in-the-moment creatures, and if not reminded, the troubles of the moment will drown out all that we have to be thankful for.

In those moments, when we do not "feel" gratitude, we can give a sacrifice (a simple act of obedience in faith) for He is good, wise, and sovereign and working out all things for our best and His glory.

Proverbs 16:33

The lot is cast into the lap, But its every decision is from the LORD.

Job 42:2

"I know that Thou canst do all things, And that no purpose of Thine can be thwarted."

Luke 11:13

"If you then, being evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more shall your heavenly Father give the Holy Spirit to those who ask Him?"

Matthew 6:8

"Therefore do not be like them; for your Father knows what you need, before you ask Him.

Romans 16:27

to the only wise God, through Jesus Christ, be the glory forever. Amen.

In our deepest sorrows, we can fall back and wholeheartedly give thanks for His work in those we love.

"What a man is on his knees before God, that he is and nothing more."

Robert Murray M'Cheyne

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