THANKSGIVING IS LOGICAL

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Thanksgiving is more than a day; it is a duty. Thanksgiving is more than a holiday on our calendar; it's a condition of our heart. Thankfulness is not our natural disposition. We are, by nature, ingrates according to Scripture.
Romans 1:21 ESV
For 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.
Orthodox theologians teach that pride was the sin of first parents, and I agree, yet we could attach to that teaching ingratitude. God the Father had provided an abundance of riches, only forbidding them one tree. Could there be any act so ungrateful as the refusal to enjoy all that God had given them? When we reject God's commands, we reject His goodness, thereby expressing ingratitude.
Throughout the Gospels, we see thanksgiving as the first response of those who encounter Jesus. Therefore, thanksgiving is the logical lifestyle of a Christian. Of the 150 Psalm’s only one carries the title A PSALM FOR GIVING THANKS. I want to use this Psalm to help us become a more grateful people and person by seeing the four logical expressions of Thanksgiving.

DOXOLOGICAL

Psalm 100:1–2 ESV
Make a joyful noise to the Lord, all the earth! Serve the Lord with gladness! Come into his presence with singing!
“I think we delight to praise what we enjoy because the praise not merely expresses but completes the enjoyment; it is its appointed consummation. It is not out of compliment that lovers keep on telling one another how beautiful they are; the delight is incomplete till it is expressed. It is frustrating to have discovered a new author and not to be able to tell anyone how good he is; to come suddenly, at the turn of the road, upon some mountain valley of unexpected grandeur and then to have to keep silent because the people with you care for it no more than for a tin can in the ditch; to hear a good joke and find no one to share it with. . . .
Thanksgiving leads to thanks living.

THEOLOGICAL

Psalm 100:3 ESV
Know that the Lord, he is God! It is he who made us, and we are his; we are his people, and the sheep of his pasture.
The verb “know” means “to know by experience.” It also carries the meaning of “acknowledge.” What we have experienced in our hearts we openly confess to others and bear witness of our glorious God.
1 Kings 18:39 ESV
And when all the people saw it, they fell on their faces and said, “The Lord, he is God; the Lord, he is God.”
The phrase “made us” means much more than “He created us,”
1 Peter 2:9–10 ESV
But you are a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for his own possession, that you may proclaim the excellencies of him who called you out of darkness into his marvelous light. Once you were not a people, but now you are God’s people; once you had not received mercy, but now you have received mercy.

SOCIOLOGICAL

Psalm 100:4 ESV
Enter his gates with thanksgiving, and his courts with praise! Give thanks to him; bless his name!
Gratitude should be a continuous attitude, not an occasional incident.
Philippians 2:14–15 ESV
Do all things without grumbling or disputing, that you may be blameless and innocent, children of God without blemish in the midst of a crooked and twisted generation, among whom you shine as lights in the world,
Grumbling is the accent of hell and gratitude is the accent of heaven.

PSYCHOLOGICAL

Psalm 100:5 ESV
For the Lord is good; his steadfast love endures forever, and his faithfulness to all generations.
How do we know this is true of the Lord? The testimony of Scripture and history’s attested track record.
1 Thessalonians 5:18 ESV
give thanks in all circumstances; for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus for you.
Are you troubles preventing you from being thankful? Then, quit studying the problems and start studying the promises.
Luke 22:19 ESV
And he took bread, and when he had given thanks, he broke it and gave it to them, saying, “This is my body, which is given for you. Do this in remembrance of me.”
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