Thanksgiving is NOT for spurring us on to obedience to God.  What?!  If gratitude isn’t to spur us to obedience, what IS gratitude for?  We are to let gratitude fuel our faith.

There are situations in which it would be completely inappropriate to even ASSUME we could repay a kindness, a grace.  For example, Christ’s sacrifice on the cross.  He alone could pay our sin penalty.  We will forever owe him a debt of gratitude.  What we do about that says a lot about how we view gratitude. 

We either let gratitude build our faith and adoration or we let gratitude burden us with guilt, driving our behavior without grace.

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