A Thankful Heart
Cannot Also Be Cynical: by AW Tozer
Giving thanks always for all
things unto God and the Father in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ. Ephesians 5:20
Let me recommend the cultivation of the
habit of thankfulness as an effective cure for the cynical, sour habits of
faultfinding among Christian believers.
Thanksgiving has great curative power. The
heart that is constantly overflowing with gratitude will be safe from those
attacks of resentfulness and gloom that bother so many religious persons. A
thankful heart cannot be cynical!
Please be aware that I am not recommending
any of the “applied psychology” nostrums so popular in liberal circles. We who
have been introduced to God through the miracle of the new birth realize that
there is good scriptural authority for the cultivation of gratitude as a cure
for spiritual sourness. Further, experience teaches us that it works!
We should never take any blessing for
granted, but accept everything as a gift from the Father of Lights. We should
write on a tablet, one by one, the things for which we are grateful to God and
to our fellow men.
Personally, I have gotten great help from
the practice of talking over with God the many kindnesses I have received. I
like to begin with thanking Him for His thoughts of me back to creation; for
giving His Son to die for me when I was still a sinner; for giving the Bible
and His blessed Spirit who inwardly gives us understanding of it. I thank Him
for my parents, teachers, statesmen, patriots.
I am grateful to God for all of these and
more—and I shall not let God forget that I am!
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