It has been said that talk is cheap. We
thank the Lord and we say “Lord, we're so thankful, we're so grateful for all
that you've done for us.” Well, do you know what we need to do? We need to turn
Thanksgiving into Thanks-living. That is, to offer to God the sacrifices of
thanksgiving.
Now, if we're thankful it really ought
to show in our lives. And by the way, I don't believe that there's any other
sin quite like the sin of ingratitude… The poet Milton, the blind poet, said
that a person with an ungrateful spirit only has one vice, he said because all
of the rest of his vices are virtues compared to ingratitude. Every other sin
is a virtue compared to the sin of ingratitude.
How terrible not to be grateful to God,
and yet in America all around we can find those who are grumbly hateful rather
than humbly grateful. Well, how can we translate our Thanksgiving today into
Thanks-living? We're to offer to God what the Bible calls the "sacrifices
of thanksgiving."
-- Adrian Rogers in “Love Worth Finding”
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