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GRATITUDE AND GRACE (November 11, 2022)
GRATITUDE AND GRACE (November 11, 2022)
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2 minutes
Released:
Nov 10, 2022
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Podcast episode
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Thankfulness is all about our expectations. So long as we think we deserve to be healthy—physically, financially—and that a sick body or an empty wallet is an injustice done to us, we’ll never feel all that grateful when God heals us. If God owes it to us to make and keep us healthy and wealthy, why should we thank Him for it?
But if we grasp the deep sacredness of living—that every moment is a gift from the Father’s hand—then everything in us will sing of everything God is doing for us. Every illness overcome; every bank account that didn’t run dry; every wounded relationship healed is a special act of grace. We deserved none of these good things: we’ve been given all these good things.
“O Lord, open my lips, and my mouth will declare Your praise” (Ps 51:5).
So stay in gratitude—and grace.
-Bill Knott
But if we grasp the deep sacredness of living—that every moment is a gift from the Father’s hand—then everything in us will sing of everything God is doing for us. Every illness overcome; every bank account that didn’t run dry; every wounded relationship healed is a special act of grace. We deserved none of these good things: we’ve been given all these good things.
“O Lord, open my lips, and my mouth will declare Your praise” (Ps 51:5).
So stay in gratitude—and grace.
-Bill Knott
Released:
Nov 10, 2022
Format:
Podcast episode
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