Gratitude Versus Ingratitude

Thanksgiving Outreach at CCBC

This Sunday, our ministry, the Worship & Arts Ministry, was able to team up with City Church and provide 33 Thanksgiving Meals to our city and families that are in need.  We collected money from our church members and provided a turkey and all the fixings for a Thanksgiving meal.  What an amazing opportunity we had to share the love of Christ.

I was privileged to deliver 3 meals yesterday.  My entire family went with me to make these deliveries.  I was touched to hear my kids voice a prayer over these families as we gave them a free dinner.  One sweet lady accepted the turkey and said with tears in her eyes, "I did not think we were going to have a Turkey this year!"  God continues to provide!  What a blessing to serve Him.

I continue to be challenged by God in my spiritual life.  So many times I neglect to live my life with a heart of gratitude.  I become self seeking with thoughts centered around me instead of thoughts placed of God and how I can serve others.  I was listening to a devotional this morning about generosity.  Chip Ingram was sharing how our society can become so consumed with life and looking inward instead of outward to help and serve others that we become depressed because of our need to be so consumed with materialism.  The cure?  Serve others!  Think of others!  Once we take our focus off of ourselves and place them on God and serving others, the depression and self gratification of our needs all passes away!

Read the following from Nancy Leigh DeMoss


Gratitude Versus Ingratitude

• Consider with me some of the contrasts between a grateful heart and an ungrateful heart.
• Grateful people are humble; ungrateful people are proud.
• A thankful person is conscious of God and others; an un-thankful person is self- conscious and self-centered.
• A grateful heart is a full heart; an ungrateful heart is an empty one. People with thankful hearts are easily contented; un-thankful people are subject to bitterness and discontent.
• A grateful heart will be revealed and expressed by thankful words; an ungrateful heart will manifest itself in murmuring and complaining.
• Thankful people are refreshing, life-giving springs; un-thankful people pull others down with them into the stagnant pools of their selfish, demanding ways.

So,  this Thanksgiving, take an inventory and live your day with a thankful heart!

Happy Thanksgiving