Thanksgiving should be the natural disposition of man towards life.
1 Thessalonians 5v16-18; Rejoice evermore, Pray without ceasing. In everything give thanks: for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus concerning you. (Verse 18 is amplified version)
As Christians, we cannot trust our natural senses to lead us in the way that we should go. The Bible is God’s standard for living, it’s one standard fits all. As such, we would be dealing with thanksgiving in two major areas- Spiritual life and the world.
1- Spiritual Life- Ephesians 2 verse 2/3/5/8/9/12.
2 Wherein in time past ye walked according to the course of this world, according to the prince of the power of the air, the spirit that now worketh in the children of disobedience:
3 Among whom also we all had our conversation in times past in the lusts of our flesh, fulfilling the desires of the flesh and of the mind; and were by nature the children of wrath, even as others.
5 Even when we were dead in sins, hath quickened us together with Christ, (by grace ye are saved;
8 For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God:
9 Not of works, lest any man should boast.
12 That at that time ye were without Christ, being aliens from the commonwealth of Israel, and strangers from the covenants of promise, having no hope, and without God in the world:
The Genius of the salvation plan was in it’s ability to be Just and Merciful. Our thanks to God is rooted is his merciful Justice expressed in the salvation plan through Christ. Once we lose the reverence of this, we stop being thankful.
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