As we come into the Thanksgiving season, our recent Celebrate Recovery lesson was on Gratitude. One of the examples was Jonah in the fish. He had disobeyed God and was doing his own thing. It was when he got thankful to God (Jonah 2:9) and prayed, and became willing to obey God, that the fish spit him out on land. Jonah had an attitude problem! And it was only when he humbled himself, became grateful to God, willing to become obedient to God, that things got better!
Attitude is so important! As a CR Ministry Leader who has seen lots of people, I’ve seen people play the blame game like Adam in Genesis 3 “It’s that woman…”. People blaming everyone except themselves. Complaining. I’ve seen people get offended over all kinds of things. Then they shun people. They need Psalm 119:165 “Great peace have they which love your law: and nothing shall offend them.” I’ve seen people yell and scream at others, all over their own thing. It’s embarrassing. They are making fools of themselves. I’ve seen people get all self-righteous and criticize and slam people, and gas-light people much like the Pharisees did with Jesus. Not even realizing they were the ones in the wrong. I’ve sadly seen people slam other people on social media, publicly.
All of this stems from ATTITUDES! BAD ATTITUDES! AND, a lack of GRATITUDE for all God has done for them. And all along the world watches and says “no thanks”!
WHAT WE NEED is solid, stable, mature character in Christ that shows forth genuine love. The fruit of the Spirit in Galatians 5. That’s how Jesus said the world will know we are His disciples.(John 13:35)
Time to repent, grow up, and grab some GRACE from God! Amen!
