ThanksgivingНамуна

How and what to be grateful for? We often mistake gratitude for an emotion, yet you can be feeling bad about your circumstances and still bring your emotions to gratitude. Being grateful has to do with your focus, your daily decisions, and a kingdom perspective.

In order to be grateful, it is crucial that we constantly remember where the Lord has taken us from: depression, abuse, sadness, complexes, abandonment, consumerism, bitterness, criticism, lies, etc. None of us is deserving of God's grace, and therefore, we all have reason to believe that God gives us the key to doing this in a practical and honest way. He advises us to do our best to respond to God's promises, complementing our faith with moral excellence, knowledge, self-control, perseverance, submission to God, brotherly affection, and love for all. These are not easy tasks, which is why he does not command us to just do them but to do our best. To do this, to make it lighter for us, remembering who we are in Christ and what He has done for us will be the motivation we need to accomplish it. Once we understand the way in which we manifest our gratitude, we must find the reasons for it. And that is when the attributes of God come into play. If we study and know what He is like, it will be impossible for us not to give thanks. Because His attributes are reflected in a blessing for our soul. God's goodness is good for us, as is His wisdom or His beauty. All that He is, is beneficial to us. And for this, we can give thanks.