Title: Grace is Gratitude
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Grace is Gratitude (Colossians 3:15-17)
If you say you have received grace, but there is no thanks, and you are caught up in complaints, dissatisfaction, resentment, worries, and worries, you have not received grace. It's just an illusion that you've been blessed, but that doesn't mean you've really received grace. Because grace itself is gratitude.
In today's text, "Praise God with thanksgiving in your heart," the word 'thank you' is the Greek word for 'charis'. Have you ever heard of charis? What did the word charis mean? That's right. 'Charis' means 'grace' and 'thanks'. In Romans 6:17, 1 Corinthians 10:30, 15:57, 2 Corinthians 2:14, 8:16, the word for thanksgiving is ‘charis’. It is equivalent to the word grace. And the word thanks appears twice more in the text. The 'eucharist' in verse 15 is 'eucharist', and the 'eucharist' in verse 17 is also the key root of charis. Therefore, grace is “thank you”. Biblically, evangelistically, and spiritually, if we define the word grace, to have a grateful heart and live a life of gratitude with our whole body, this is what grace is.
To say that you have received grace means that you have realized gratitude, and to be a person who has received grace means that you have become a person of gratitude. Grace and gratitude are always in a symbiotic relationship and do not exist separately. When there is grace, there is gratitude, and when there is gratitude, there must be grace.