Title: Let's Learn Gratitude/Colossians 3:15-17
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Let's learn to be thankful / Colossians 3:15-17
Americans seem to have a spirit of gratitude. So, even for small things, you can always be grateful and practice gratitude. However, Koreans seem to be too stingy in expressing gratitude and lose gratitude in many cases. So, on Thanksgiving Day, we must learn to be thankful and become believers who can give thanks. So what kind of gratitude should we learn?
First, we must learn to appreciate 'Nevertheless'.
I think that Job was the best example of gratitude in the Bible. Job is the one who gave thanks for 'Nevertheless'. He was the richest man in the East at his time and the happiest man with 10 children. In terms of faith, he was a man who always lived reverently and purely before God. However, all of that wealth was robbed in one day, and 10 siblings were wiped out at once. And his own body suffered from a chronic disease, and even his wife cursed him and left him, and his friends also criticized him and broke his heart. This caused Job to suffer truly unimaginable as a human being. Nevertheless, Job did not blame God, but instead gave praise and thanks to God (Job 1:20-22).
Even if we are faced with tribulations and trials, we should be able to give thanks 'Nevertheless' without forgetting to give thanks. Then I believe that God will fill you with even greater blessings. We must become believers who can thank God for His grace.
Second, we must learn to be grateful, even if there is nothing.
We usually see three types of Christians around us. First, there are Christians who have no gratitude for anything they receive. There are Christians who can be thankful only when they receive the second. Third, you will see that there are Christians who know how to be thankful even when they are not there. When we see mature believers who 'just give thanks' and want to give, even if they are not in good health and have no material resources, we naturally bow our heads.
Saints, where do you think you belong? The Apostle Paul exhorts us to realize the indescribable grace of God and be thankful in everything. Therefore, even if we do not have anything, we should become believers who can thank God for the grace of salvation and the providence that has helped and guided us so far.
In the name of the Lord, I pray in the name of the Lord that all the saints of Gwangam who will be able to give thanks to God every day, realizing that God has been walking with us and holding our hand until now.