From his book on prayer, listen to these words about ingratitude and prayer from Tim Keller:
“We are never as thankful as we should be. When good things come to us, we do everything possible to tell ourselves we accomplished that or at least deserve it. We take the credit. And when our lives simply are going along pretty smoothly, without a lot of difficulties, we don’t live in quiet, amazed, thankful consciousness of it. In the end, we not only rob God of the glory due him, but the assumption that we are keeping our lives going robs us of the joy and relief that constant gratitude to an all-powerful God brings.”
May all of us pray genuine prayers of thanksgiving throughout this day!
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Keller, Timothy. Prayer (pp. 196-197). Penguin Publishing Group. Kindle Edition.