Be grateful to your gracious God.
It has been truly said that in the New Testament the doctrine is grace and the ethic - that is, the prescribed behaviour - is gratitude. And the gratitude is prompted by both the knowledge of the grace of Christ in one's head and the power of that grace in one's heart, with Christ as the centre of attention at all times in both.
"For you know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, that though he was rich, yet for your sake he became poor, so that you by his poverty might become rich" (2 Corinthians 8:9). Giving to God should ever express unending gratitude for almost unbelievable grace.
- J. I. Packer, Weakness Is the Way: Life with Christ Our Strength
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