Grateful For Crisis, Conviction, Correction S8e20 1thes5:18

The bar for Christian gratefulness is set very high. Grateful people are no accident. We are charged to push out stuff that isn't grateful, and to push in gratefulness to our hearts and then to our lips toward our God.

Here's the new part: in ALL circumstances. God is at work in moving the stubborn, sinful, hearts of men and women towards holiness. He wants us to be thankful in prosperity, sure. But the real test is being grateful when we are convicted, in hunger, in sickness, in correction, in seasons of endurance and long-suffering, when we are under His disciplining hand and when life, people and even church is difficult.  These are often the situations of the critical interior work of the Spirit. We will make particular effort today to be grateful for these.

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