An Attitude of Gratitude
I’ve been pondering gratitude lately. I don’t think of myself as an ungrateful person, and I often thank God for His goodness, His love and His many blessings but I wonder if my life reflects the gratitude I think I feel. Do I truly understand how blessed I am?
I think I’ve tended to go the path so many do–where I focus on the things of earth instead of developing an eternal perspective. Life is full of discouragement and disappointments, and those things can get one down but, no matter what happens in life, God is still on His Throne and we still have much to rejoice in.
Right now, I am asking God to show me everything I have to be thankful for so I can thank Him for those things. Then I want to communicate to others the blessings God has poured out on me. For those God has put in my life who have stood by me through thick and thin, I thank Him. For the way that He continues to love me when He could have easily left me a long time ago, I thank Him. For giving me a family who loves me in spite of different preferences and personalities, I thank Him. And for being the best Father I could ever have asked for, I thank Him. What a wonderful God I serve. How can I not have an attitude of gratitude?
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