UNGRATEFULNESS

A MOTHER was trying to teach her daughter to pray, but the little girl didn’t want to. Her mother tried to motivate her to pray by putting her on a guilt trip. “You have so much to be thankful for. Think of all the children who don’t have food, don’t have clothes, or don’t have parents like you.” The girl replied, “Well, then, they are the ones who need to pray.”1014

[Children, Training; Prayer]

Eph. 6:18; Col. 4:2

THERE are many parents who have ungrateful children. It is very frustrating. Parents spend so much time working to provide for their children and to give to them so much at no cost to those children. Free food, free housing, free clothes, free spending money, free tennis shoes, and free gas. Thinking about it will make a mom or dad mad! Parents do all this because they love them. However, most kids don’t recognize orappreciate the free gifts, they only see the restrictions and want to complain.

“How come I can’t go?” “How come I can’t stay out later?” “How come I can’t have it?”

Anyone who understands the peril of living with an ungrateful teenager understands how God feels about his own ungrateful kids. God gives good things day after day, week after week, month after month, year after year, and His children miss His goodness and His grace.1015

[Blessing, Source of; Grace, Appreciation of; Gratefulness; Salvation, Gratefulness for]

Deut. 8:10; Ps. 100:4