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INGRATITUDE

DATE: OCTOBER 4, 2021

TOPIC: INGRATITUDE

BIBLE TEXT: NUMBERS 11 VS 4 – And the mixt multitude that was among them fell a lusting: and the children of Israel also wept again, and said, who shall give us flesh to eat?


Ingratitude simply means a lack or the absence of gratitude (thanklessness). The children of Israel displayed a high level of ingratitude towards God. Instead of thanking the Lord for their lives, breath, health, victories over slavery, poverty, torments and shame – they chose to pay the Lord with complaints and disgust. They started lusting after the flesh, seeking various ways of eating gluttonously and unhealthy diets. Numbers 11 vs. 5-6 – ‘we remember the fish, which we did eat in Egypt freely; the cucumbers and the melons, and the leeks (edible vegetables), and the onions and the garlics; but now our soul is dried away; there is nothing at all, beside this manna, before our eyes.

The children of Israel showed not only ingratitude, but disdain. They despised the manna that God sent from Heaven. There are so many Christians out there in the world that show ingratitude towards their Maker. You are not satisfied with ‘the blessings of the Lord that makes rich and adds no sorrow’, many prefer the luxury of the flesh and lust and the multiple sorrow they bring than the peace from God. Our Heavenly Father has never failed in His fatherly duties and will never fail, he told this via the Holy Spirit in Apostle Paul through the Book of Philippians 4 vs. 6 – ‘but in everything by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your request be made known unto God’. Have you been praying scripturally? Change your ways of approach to God and start every request with thanksgiving, our God is not a wicked One, HE cares.


Prayer: Heavenly Father, please forgive my ingratitude, I owe you everything.

Insight: Ingratitude will only attract God’s wrath, so give thanks always.

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