Unthankful Hearts

During a Sunday worship service, our congregation said this prayer of confession in unison: “Gracious God, like many believers before us, we complain when things do not go our way. We want abundance of everything rather than what is sufficient to sustain us. We would rather be elsewhere than where we are at the moment. We would rather have the gifts You give to others than what You provide for us. We would rather have You serve us than serve You. Forgive our lack of gratitude for what You give.” –David C. McCasland (from the Our Daily Bread devotional)

How true that prayer is.  So often we are so focused on what we lack that we forget all that God has given us.  We forget that God will give us everything to do His will (1 Thessalonians 5:24—He who calls you is faithful, and He will do it).  It also shows how weak our flesh is.  We are continually drawn to things of this world that other people have that we do not have.  We forget to delight ourselves in the Lord and so we miss out on God giving us the desires of our heart (Psalm 37:4).