When God made you a new creature in Christ, He also designed you to be a creature fueled by thanksgiving. Only a Christian has the ability to express thankfulness from an eternal perspective. Gratitude for someone who does not know Christ is limited to the here and now. Anyone can be thankful for temporal things, but eternal gratitude is for those whom God has made to be his people.
When you lack thanksgiving you are being contrary to the person God has made you to be. The things of this earth have become more important than the gift of eternity that has been given to you in Christ.
From the visible signs of the rainbow and the communion table to the joy of knowing Jesus, we are graciously reminded of why gratitude should dominate our lives.
Enter into each day overwhelmed with thanksgiving. As Psalm 100 describes, it is what you were made for!
Shout with joy to the Lord, all the earth!
Worship the Lord with gladness.
Come before him, singing with joy.Acknowledge that the Lord is God!
He made us, and we are his.
We are his people, the sheep of his pasture.Enter his gates with thanksgiving;
go into his courts with praise.
Give thanks to him and praise his name.For the Lord is good.
His unfailing love continues forever,
and his faithfulness continues to each generation.