Attitude of Gratitude

In studying the Old Testament for seminary this fall-I had a realization during my run today! So often we are counseled by His living Oracles to have an attitude of gratitude. One of the reasons I am sure we are taught to act in such a way is much like the Israelites being lost in the wilderness for forty years because they merely forgot to remember the Lord their God. Even though, it was He who made it possible for them to live day to day providing manna. Giving them light by night-such and incredible and obvious source for everything they used and gained on a daily basis and yet they forgot the source from which their blessings came!

If we are grateful and consistently praise the Lord for all He continually grants unto us on a daily basis-can we really forget who it is we rely upon for all that we have, are, and will be? I'm so grateful for the many blessings of the gospel in my life. Grateful for a knowledge that Jesus Christ is the Son of God, Our Redeemer, the Creator, and ultimately a being whom supplies us with the only feasible amount of grace to ensure, if we chose, we may make it back to our Father who gave us life. Everything that is Spiritual is interconnected to our temporal world and vice versa. How great the goodness of our God. May we more fully trust Him and His will and all he asks of us that maybe sometime down the road we may more perfectly understand why He asks us to do all he does.