Sermon Theme: GRATITUDE IS BORN IN HEARTS THAT TAKE TIME TO COUNT UP PAST MERCIES!

Gratitude is a concept so very important for us in our Christianlives! It is important, for its presence or absence affects every one of our relationships either positively or negatively. This is true whether we are talking about our relationship with God or with one another. Gratitude is that feeling of appreciation and thankfulness which arises within our hearts when we recognize that someone has been kind to us. Such feelings motivate us to offer thanksgiving both to God and to other people. Let us, therefore, consider this morning how GRATITUDE IS BORN IN HEARTS THAT TAKE TIME TO COUNT UP PAST MERCIES! Let us do just that—count up past mercies bestowed upon us by God. For then our hearts will be filled with gratitude towards God as well as towards others through whom many of those mercies come. Based on Jeremiah’s words in our text, we will recognize that the mercies we receive are mercies we do not deserve, but which just keep on coming, and that all our blessings are in fact mercies proceeding from the LORD!