Gratitude is a lifestyle,
A hard-fought,
Grace infused,
Biblical lifestyle.
- Nancy Leigh DeMoss
Is the gratitude
That flows out of your life
As abounding as the grace
That has flowed into your life.
- Nancy Leigh DeMoss
When we give out
Of Gratitude to God,
We cause gratitude
To well up in others’ hearts.
- Nancy Leigh DeMoss
No Thanks…
Of the 30 people who survived
The sinking of the Lady Elgin
Steamer in 1860 near Evanston,
Ill.
17 of them owed their life
to a brave young seminary
Student named Edward Spencer,
His dream of becoming a preacher
And a scholar was forever lost.
Quite never being able to recover
Physically from that fateful day
He was forced to abandon his
Schooling, his livelihood,
And his dream.
The rescue left him paralyzed,
Confined to a wheelchair.
While his uncommon valor was
Recalled from time to time in
Various newspaper accounts and
General tributes,
When asked by a reporter what
He most recalled about the events
Of that day…
He replied,
“Only this: of the seventeen people
I saved, not one of them ever
Thanked me.”
Was that too much to expect?
This story reminds believers
of the 9 Jewish lepers who
failed to thank Jesus for healing
them of their deadly disease
in Luke 19.
The question is this…
Are we thankful people?
Do we thank others
When showed a kindness?
Or are we too much like
The 17 people who Spencer
Edward saved from certain
Drowning or the 9 lepers
Who didn’t thank Jesus
For healing them?
Think About it?
Thankless children we all are,
More or less, comprehending
But dimly the truth of God’s
Fathomable love for us.
- Elisabeth Elliott
The thing that awakens
The deepest well of gratitude
In a human being is that
God has forgiven sin.
- Oswald Chambers
Seek to cultivate a buoyant,
Joyous sense of the crowded
Kindnesses of God in your
Daily life.
- Alexander Maclaren
(Excerpted from
Choosing Gratitude
Your journey to joy
Nancy Leigh DeMoss)
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