Friday, November 28, 2014

Ingratitude

"Although they knew God, they did not honor him as God or give thanks to him, but they became futile in their thinking, and their foolish hearts were darkened." ~Romans 1:21

"At the root of all ingratitude is the love of one's own greatness. For genuine gratitude admits that we are beneficiaries of an unearned bequest. We are cripples leaning on the cross-shaped crutch of Jesus Christ. We are paralytics living minute by minute in the iron lung of God's mercy. We are children asleep in heaven’s stroller.

Natural man hates to think of himself in these images: unworthy beneficiary, cripple, paralytic, child. They rob him of all his glory by giving it all to God."
~ John Piper, “I Will Magnify God with Thanksgiving”, Solid Joy

It's precisely described as above the fallen condition of man. The natural man doesn't even have the inclination to think and feel of their own condition, or the need of it.

Even as Christians, the carnality of our fallen condition testifies to that in which that still lingers within our temporal condition. But praise be to God who delivers us from ourselves. Without whom, we are simply left to self - destruct.

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