Acknowledgement: We Don’t Want to Be Ungrateful

Acknowledgement: We Don’t Want to Be Ungrateful

Scripture:

“In everything give thanks: for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus concerning you.”

— 1 Thessalonians 5:18 (KJV)

Devotion:

One of the greatest tools of encouragement is acknowledgment, which is the ability to reflect and recognize the hand of God moving, even in the moments we took for granted.

We don’t want to be ungrateful. Not when He’s been so faithful. Not when His mercy has been our covering.

His grace is our fuel, and His love is our anchor.

Ungratefulness isn’t always loud. Sometimes, it sounds like silence. Sometimes, it looks like moving on too quickly. We say, “Next, Lord...” but forget to say, “Thank You." We pray for more, but forget that our current blessings were once desperate prayers.

Gratitude is power. It stirs our hearts, shifts our perspective, and returns our focus to Papa God as our Source. When we acknowledge Him, we’re not just saying thanks, we are building ourselves as living altars where worship and wonder meet.

Reflection:

• Have we slowed down long enough to truly see Him?

• Have we allowed our hearts to echo the reverence that’s due to Him?

• Have we taken His presence for granted?

Let us not be like the nine lepers who received the miracle and kept walking. Let us be like the one who turned back to acknowledge. To worship. To say, “Thank You, Papa God. I know it was You.”

Prayer:

Papa God, we don’t want to be ungrateful. Forgive us for the times we rushed ahead without recognizing Your hand. We desire to honor You consistently. We choose today to acknowledge You in the small and in the great, in the silence and in the shout, in the loss and in the laughter. Strengthen our hearts to remain tender and our memory long, so that we will never forget how You carried us, kept us, and loved us through it all. In the name of Jesus. Amen.