Title Abounding in Thanksgiving (Colossians 2:6-7)
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There is a saying that "excessive is not as good as insufficient". It's good for health and clear mind if you eat a little bit of food rather than overeating it. If you eat too much, your health will be poor, your mind will be hazy, and your body will become drowsy. And only hunger comes. Excessive speech leads to strife, quarrels and fights. It can also leave scars that cannot be healed. If you do your makeup well, you look pretty and stand out. However, if the makeup is too much, it looks vulgar. When you drive or lock a screw or bolt, you may have experienced it becoming unbearable and bursting if you over-tighten it. This is how the moon tilts when it is full. When the cup is full, it overflows. We also need a life that does not go too far and does not go too far. We should also be wary of overfilling our lives. How good it is to have a little bit less than to be overly arrogant and overdo it.
However, there is one thing that the more you overdo, the better. It's thanks. In today's text, he also said to "abundantly give thanks." There are many criteria for judging a person's personality, but above all else, isn't it a mature and good personality who knows how to be grateful? Gratitude is one of the essential virtues that everyone should have in front of people and before God. Where there is murmuring there is contention, but where there is gratitude there is peace.
Dale Carnegie in "Life is Action": "Every morning when I wake up, I think of things to be grateful for. Music on the radio, time to read, delicious food, people who care about me, friendly friends... ..., the effect was great. It was an idea that brought happiness and health."
We are those who have received Christ as Lord. What should be the greatest concern of those who have received Christ as Lord? Today's scripture says, "Walking in him." If so, what should be done in it? That is “to overflow with gratitude”.
There is a painting called "Many Bells" by J. Millet. This painting you are looking at is 'Manjong'. Along with gleaning, it is probably the most famous painting in Korea. In this picture, you can get a glimpse of a person who works, a person who prays, and a person who is thankful. People who have work, people who have prayers, and people who have gratitude are very happy people.
However, the friend who saw this picture expressed great shock and concern, and in the end, after much deliberation, he asked Millet to put a different picture in place of the baby... that has been Since then, this painting has become a world-class masterpiece of peaceful and idyllic landscapes.
Some people do not give thanks even if there are many conditions for gratitude, but rather complain and complain. However, some people are always smiling and overflowing with gratitude, even in painful and painful circumstances. However, the thing to remember is that the more you grumble and complain, the more things you will resent and complain about, and the more you give thanks, the more things to be thankful for.
A famous Japanese theologian named Uchimoraganzo said, "It would be better to be bitten by a viper's tooth than to have an ungrateful child." When you raise children, you can only raise children who are grateful to their parents. However, it is better to be bitten by a viper's teeth than to raise a child who complains and resents. Gratitude is the practice of being happy, and complaining is the practice of being unhappy.
Dr. David Soffer has said this about the fundamental difference between a prison and a monastery.
"It's just the difference between complaining or giving thanks. Prisoners in prison spend their entire waking hours complaining. But monks spend their time giving thanks. When a prison becomes a monastery, on the other hand, if a monk has the same mind as a prisoner, the monastery falls into a prison."
How can I be overflowing with gratitude?
Verse 7 says, 'Be rooted and built up in him, standing firm in the faith as you were taught, abounding in thanksgiving'. We must have our roots deeply rooted in Jesus, who is the author and perfecter of our faith, and we must be built on that rock. Only when we stand firm in our faith can we overflow with gratitude.