Psalms 100:4 Enter His gates with thanksgiving and His courts with praise, give thanks to Him and bless His name.
Give thanks to Him and bless His name. This is the sixth command in this short, positive Psalms. O, to be truly grateful from the heart! God, give me such a heart.
Grateful people have recognized their dependence upon others.
Grateful people tend not to be presumptuous.
Grateful people have their pride and arrogance in check.
Grateful people tend to be pleasant to be around.
Grateful people recognize that others have given of their time, talents or resources to meet their need.
Grateful people are ‘others centered’, taking time to acknowledge the generosity of others.
I am mindful of a society’s ingratitude toward the Creator. From Romans 1, “…Because they did not see fit to acknowledge God or GIVE THANKS to Him…They became futile in their thinking and their senseless minds were darkened… He gave them up in the lusts of their own hearts to impurity…”
Ingratitude: the unwillingness to say “THANK YOU”, the refusal to acknowledge the generosity of God, the grotesque “Golem-like” attitude of “MINE”, all are UGLY in God’s sight. He delights in our gratitude and notes it publicly. When the healed leper returns, Jesus publicly acknowledges him.
Give thanks to Him. Bless His name. Enter His gates with thanksgiving. Enter His courts with praise. Come into His presence with singing… God is a great, generous God who gives and gives and gives to us again and again. He is the source of life, breath and ALL good things. Give thanks to Him and bless His name. Take some time today and purpose in your heart to say THANK YOU to those around you. Make a goal of saying “THANK YOU” at least 10 times today to those around you. See what verbal gratitude does to your soul.
