Lord, your faithful love reaches to heaven, your faithfulness to the clouds. —Psalm 36:5
Generic, garden-variety gratitude has its limits. Its scope is generally confined to conditions that suit us or make us happy. It also tends to be mainly an internal thought process that largely only benefits us individually. And it’s usually less than wholehearted gratitude, lacking the eternal purpose of doing so in response to God’s saving grace. It’s just being grateful . . . because.
But the limits of Christian gratitude . . . Who said anything about limits?
Psalm 36 reminds us that God’s grace is super-abounding from the far reaches of His dominion, filling the depths of our needy lives. Our hearts answer back with all the gratitude we can muster yet are met by even more grace and mercy.
The beauty of Christian gratitude is that one little act of thanksgiving on our part can bound and rebound from one end of the kingdom to the other, not only blessing God, not only benefiting us, but even lodging itself in places and in people where God’s love might never have been received any other way.
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Choosing Gratitude: Your Journey to Joy ©2009 Revived Hearts Foundation
Scripture taken from The CSB
Make it Personal
Read Psalm 36 today and give thanks for all of God’s attributes that are mentioned.