Monday, June 26, 2017

Ungrateful Bipeds


If you don’t think gratitude is important—think again.

June’s Awakening, Day 26

I believe the best definition of man is the ungrateful biped.

 —Fyodor Dostoevsky

 The earth produces nothing viler than an ungrateful man.

 —Horace 

 

Nor should there be obscenity, foolish talk or coarse joking, which are out of place, but rather thanksgiving. Ephesians 5:4 NIV 

 

For everything God created is good, and nothing is to be rejected if it is received with thanksgiving, because it is consecrated by the word of God and prayer.

1 Timothy 4:4–5 NIV  

 

            Not all is lost, but we have much work to do if you are belligerent, cantankerous, abrasive, offensive, and ungrateful. Who would want to spend eternity with you? And remember, eternity starts here on earth and keeps on going. It would be good to start now and make some serious life changes. Yes, cliché as it is, attitude is everything, for everything flows out of the deep recesses of the heart and mind. Change starts with you, and it starts from deep within. I don’t think that I would want, “Here Lies the Ungrateful Biped,” etched into my headstone. Yet, we all know those who are teetering dangerously close to being that. The fact is that no one in this world, nor the world itself, nor God, owe you anything. Everything is a gift from God, so we should be grateful for all we are and have, without a prideful expectation of deserving everything else. Maybe we need to go back and look at the Book of Job. You may have it all, lose it all, and God may doubly bless you in the end; or you may have nothing, but glean gold nuggets in character as you walk the path to Him. It is your attitude all along the journey that matters. Remember, gold in heaven is just another brick in the street.

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