“As you therefore have received Christ Jesus the Lord, so walk in Him, rooted and built up in Him and established in the faith, as you have been taught, abounding in it with thanksgiving.” COLOSSIANS 2:6-7
PONDER THIS
We often forget the impact gratitude can have. It is so simple, but it is deeply powerful and meaningful when we express gratitude!
I once spoke with a very prosperous businessman who became a Christian. He told me he had witnessed to his father repeatedly, but his father would not listen to the witness. This man tried to win his father to Christ. One day, it dawned on him, “When I’m talking to my father and trying to win him to Christ, I can easily start bashing the way he raised me instead of showing him respect.” He said, “I thought, what does that say to my father? It is saying to my father that I did not really appreciate all that he did for me, but I had a good father who did many things for me.”
One day God gave him some wisdom, and he sat down and wrote his father a letter. In the letter, he thanked his dad for everything he had done for him, from the food to the roof over his head. He thanked him for the fishing trips, the care, the advice, and the time together. His father read that letter and the next time he talked to his father about Jesus, his father was so much more receptive and decided to follow Christ. An attitude of gratitude reflects our heavenly Father and can make an eternal impact on someone’s life.
Who displays Christlike gratitude in your life? What have you learned from that person’s witness?
With whom are you trying to share your faith? Have you expressed gratitude to those people?
PRACTICE THIS
Talk to someone who is not a Christian and tell that person the reasons you are thankful for him or for her.
LWF Dr. Adrian Rogers
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