"The tension between complaint and gratitude tugs at our hearts constantly. It's a spiritual battle, and the result shapes fundamentally different responses of how we live.
The decision to complain or the decision to give thanks are both rooted in the way we think about ourselves.
If we place ourselves in the center of our world and reduce our concerns down to what we want and how we feel, we will operate with an entitled and demanding attitude.
But if we humbly admit that, as sinners, we deserve nothing but God's wrath and yet in an act of outrageous grace, he has turned his face of mercy and kindness towards us...then feelings of tremendous thankfulness will fill our hearts.
If we remind ourselves that EVERY good thing in our life is an undeserved blessing, we will find reasons to be grateful everywhere we look."
Paul David Tripp
Let the grateful heart
sweep through the day
that it may recognize
in every hour
some sweet blessing.
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