Gladness in the Badness
Gratitude is easy when life is good, but it is also easily forgotten.
When life is good with no dangers or serious problems in sight, it’s easy to hit the spiritual cruise control.
Perhaps this occurs because we don’t understand that gratitude serves an important function. It’s fair to consider it a response, and most logically a response to good circumstances. Someone gives us a gift or allows us into their lane on the freeway and we feel a warm feeling about humanity and our circumstances at the moment.
Makes sense.
But gratitude is actually an important tool to employ when things are bad. Like a crowbar, thanking God in and for our difficulties can lift both our attitude and character out of the clutches of tough circumstances. Black belts in gratitude exercise their appreciation for God, life, and people when things are not going their way. They have the trained eye to see through difficulties to the other side, to the possibilities of how God might use these hard times to better their lives.
So true gratitude requires faith and courage. It is a weapon of our warfare.
For the weapons of our warfare are not of the flesh but have divine power to destroy strongholds.