Our central Christian virtue
is gratitude. Without God we are without hope in the world. We were born in sin
and confirmed in sin , and by nature objects of wrath. But God, in His kindness
and mercy, and His love in which He loved us while we were yet sinners, reached
out to us to draw us to Himself. He did this out of His own mere good pleasure.
The only response to such kindness is gratitude. And that
sort of gratitude should repeat itself often in our lives with one another. As
we look around at our blessings, we understand that things could have turned
out very differently. Even if your life is difficult and a struggle, things are
never so bad that they cannot get worse. And that is a reason to be thankful.
And that thankfulness keeps us from stewing in our own bitterness, towards God
and towards others.
Cultivate gratitude and a host of evil shall not prevail
against it. For the truly grateful are abundant in the Kingdom of God.
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