Gratitude to the Lord makes everything sweeter

You can’t be thankful and complaining at the same time

Colossians 3:12-17

Just stop and think about it: Can you feel and express genuine thankfulness from the heart, while simultaneously feeling and expressing a complaining spirit and words? It’s just impossible isn’t it?

Here’s another one: Can you feel and express gratitude and humility towards God while simultaneously feeling and expressing prideful self-sufficiency and indifference to Him?

Hear the opening words of the First National Proclamation of Thanksgiving, given by the Continental Congress in 1777 from its temporary location in York, Pennsylvania, while the British occupied the national capital at Philadelphia. This was penned by none other than Samuel Adams.