Ingrate!

Okay, sometimes I have to accept that I am not a grateful person. Ingrate is a pretty harsh word, but… well, you decide if it isn’t the right description. I recently went back to work after a six week medical leave. Now, when I left, I had some big issues with how my company does certain things. I really didn’t expect anything to have changed while I was out. I knew those same old troubles would be there. And I was right. They were. And I’ve been pretty cranky about it.

Maybe it would have been better if I could have spent at least a couple of days being grateful to have a job to go back to. Thankful for a company that, while not perfectly managed, does offer disability pay for longer illnesses. I mean, in the back of my brain, of course I’m thankful for those things. But at the front of my brain and the tip of my tongue, I am crabby.

Now I know I’m not the first believer to be ungrateful. There’s a long line of ingratitude in our heritage, starting with Adam and Eve. Rather than be grateful for all the beauty and abundance God had given them in the garden, they were totally indignant about how God wouldn’t let them eat of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil. And in that unthankfulness, the devil found his opening and tempted Adam and Eve into the destruction of their lives.

So what is Satan tempting me to, in my ungratefulness? I KNOW it’s not for my good, whatever it is. So my plan is pretty well laid out for me – look for those reasons to be thankful and actively push back against those thoughts of ingratitude. What have you got to be grateful for? Click comments below and share a few thoughts.