Psalm 116:12 What shall I render unto the LORD for all his benefits toward me?
Psalm 68:19 Blessed be the Lord, who daily loads us with benefits, even the God of our salvation. Selah.
Psalm 116:17 I will offer to thee the sacrifice of thanksgiving, and will call upon the name of the LORD.
2 Timothy 3:1-2 But understand this, that in the last days difficult times will come [perilous times]. 2 For people will be lovers of themselves, lovers of money, boastful, arrogant, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, ungrateful, unholy, (NAS)
Psalm 103:2 Bless the LORD, O my soul, and forget not all his benefits:
Psalm 116:12 What shall I render unto the LORD for all his benefits toward me?
Psalm 116:17 I will offer to thee the sacrifice of thanksgiving, and will call upon the name of the LORD.
“Ingratitude”: “Forgetfulness of, or poor return for, kindness received.”
gratitude is the awareness and acknowledgment of goodness in ones life.
2 Chronicles 32:25 But Hezekiah gave no return for the benefit he received, because his heart was proud; therefore wrath came on him and on Judah and Jerusalem. (NAS)
2 Chronicles 32:25 But Hezekiah was ungrateful; he had a proud attitude, provoking God to be angry at him, as well as Judah and Jerusalem. (NET)
2 Chronicles 32:25 But Hezekiah was so proud that he refused to thank the LORD for everything he had done for him. This made the LORD angry, and he punished Hezekiah and the people of Judah and Jerusalem. (CEV)
Matthew Henry:
"Note, It is justly expected that those who have received mercy from God should study to make some suitable returns for the mercies they have received; and, if they do not, their ingratitude will certainly be charged upon them. Though we cannot render an equivalent, or the payment of a debt, we must render the acknowledgment of a favour."
Robert Emmons, in his book: "Thanks, How the New Science of Gratitude Can Make You Happier":
"Narcissism is a spiritual blindness… A preoccupation with the self can cause us to forget our benefits and our benefactors or to feel that we are owed things from others and therefore have no reason to feel thankful. The paramount characteristic of narcissism is a sense of entitlement. People with narcissistic tendencies erroneously believe they are deserving of special rights and privileges. When they are given a gift, they believe it is their due or right."
Isaiah 5:4 What more could have been done to My vineyard That I have not done in it?
Isaiah 1:3 The ox knoweth his owner, and the ass his master's crib: but Israel doth not know, my people doth not consider.
NLT Isaiah 1:3 Even the animals-- the donkey and the ox-- know their owner and appreciate his care, but not my people Israel. No matter what I do for them, they still do not understand."
NLT Numbers 21:5 and they began to murmur against God and Moses. "Why have you brought us out of Egypt to die here in the wilderness?" they complained. "There is nothing to eat here and nothing to drink. And we hate this wretched manna!"
Judges 8:34 And the children of Israel remembered not the LORD their God, who had delivered them out of the hands of all their enemies on every side:
Psalm 106:7, 21 Our fathers understood not thy wonders in Egypt; they remembered not the multitude of thy mercies; but provoked him at the sea, even at the Red sea. 21 They forgat God their saviour, which had done great things in Egypt;
Genesis 40:23 Yet the chief cupbearer did not remember Joseph, but forgot him.
Luke 17:17 So Jesus answered and said, "Were there not ten cleansed? But where are the nine?
Enlightenment philosopher David Hume: "Of all the crimes that human creatures are capable of committing, the most horrid and unnatural is ingratitude"
Emmanuel Kant: "ingratitude ... is the essence of vileness."
Romans 1:21 Because that, when they knew God, they glorified him not as God, neither were thankful; but became vain in their imaginations, and their foolish heart was darkened.
Romans 1:21 For though they knew God, they did not glorify Him as God or show gratitude. Instead, their thinking became nonsense, and their senseless minds (HCSB)
Ignatius:
"In the light of the Divine Goodness, it seems to me that ingratitude is the most abominable of sins and that it should be detested in the sight of our Creator and Lord by all of His creatures who are capable of enjoying His divine and everlasting glory. It is a forgetting of the graces, benefits, and blessings received, and as such it is the cause, beginning, and origin of all sins and misfortunes."
Psalm 116:12 What shall I render unto the LORD for all his benefits toward me?
Psalm 116:17 I will offer to thee the sacrifice of thanksgiving,
Psalm 95:2 Let us come before his presence with thanksgiving, and make a joyful noise unto him with psalms.
"Many individuals have already lost the power to simply sit and consider on their lives. They are too occupied troubling about their finances, their work and even their future that they do not realize the easy pleasures which make up their life."
Robert Emmons:
"What does it mean to say that gratitude is a choice? It means that we sharpen our ability to recognize and acknowledge the giftedness of life. It means that we make a conscious decision to see blessings instead of curses. It means that our internal reactions are not determined by external forces."
1 Thessalonians 5:18 In every thing give thanks: for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus concerning you.
"Paul is not prescribing for us how we must feel; he is calling on us to choose to rejoice and thank God on the basis of what is true--regardless of how happy or thankful we may feel."
"This is why the notion that it is unspiritual to thank God unless you feel grateful is false. Choosing by faith to thank God in spite of intense feelings of depression, disappointment, anxiety, etc. is deeply spiritual. This is why if you wait until you feel grateful to thank God, you will feel less and less grateful. But if you choose to thank God regardless of how you feel, you will feel more grateful more often."
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