Title: Godliness through Thanksgiving
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Lessons from the Seasons (General Revelation)
Autumn teaches us many lessons. Nature is one of the means of God's revelation. This is because God speaks to us through nature and makes us realize God's will through nature. So nature as a general revelation allows us to learn the providence of God, and the Bible as a special revelation allows us to obtain the only truth about salvation.
What we learn in nature, especially God's providence for autumn, allows us to learn to be thankful through abundant fruit. And let us learn the end. There are times when leaves fall for all of us, so we should not live today as if there is no winter in our lives, but rather prepare for eternal life.
autumn thanksgiving
There will be relative appreciation. This is to think and be thankful that you have been spared from a worse situation in any circumstances that you encountered.
There is intrinsic gratitude. This is the epitome of Christian thanksgiving. It is thanks to the nature of being a child of God, thanks for the grace of salvation, and thanks to God for allowing us to hope for eternal heaven. Such gratitude allows us to overcome today's reality with faith without worrying about it.
The fruit of godliness with thanksgiving
Gratitude is expressed through expression. That expression is expressed through the confession of the lips, the dream of life, and the service. The response to God's grace to look back on Thanksgiving is expressed in the worship of thanksgiving, and it is manifested in serving our neighbors. Gratitude should not stay within, but overflow into our lives and be delivered to God and our neighbors.
The Bible calls it godliness (James 1:27). Genuine gratitude leads to godliness.