First Grace

(An excerpt from Ann Voskamp's One Thousand Gifts Devotional. Support the author and purchase it via her link here: ON AMAZON. It will be a continual blessing to you for years to come.)

first grace

"What initially spark's God's anger? What is the root of sin? It's not the sinfulness that you'd think it would be: It's thanklessness (Romans 1:18-28). It's thanklessness that first stirs the full wrath of God.

Our fall is always first a failure to give thanks. The pride of thanklessness always comes before a fall. A lack of doxology leads to depravity. The heart of wickedness and godlessness is that: a refusal to glorify God. It's the refusal to thank Him.

And there is this: If all the dismembering wickedness in the world begins with the act of forgetting, then the act of counting blessings re-members us to God. This is the making whole."