GRATEFULNESS

The Bible is very clear through multitudinous Scriptures to the fact that God requires GRATEFULNESS. We are to give thanks in all things---good and bad---if we believe that God is sovereign and working through them all (Rom. 8:28). The failure to do that is one of the characteristics of those who have fallen from the working of the grace of God in their lives, and is noted in Romans 1: "For although they knew God, they neither glorified Him as God NOR GAVE THANKS to Him, but their thinking became futile, and their foolish hearts were darkened." (Rom. 1:21)

Mark Twain said, "You can take in a stray dog, feed him and cause him to prosper, and he will not bite you. This is the fundamental difference between men and dogs."

April Fools Day - "No Foolin' Around"

I was going to post some quotes on the power (and value) of words. But before that ... since this is "April Fools Day," I thought I would give a few quotes about FOOLS from the wisest man that ever lived ... plus a few other Scriptures. This should cause all "gainsayers" to re-evaluate the essence of their spoken (and written) words, which have the "power of life and death." You can view them at www.lifeway.org/special/mouth_of_fools.htm AND http://www.lifeway.org/special/slander.htm.

Supplemental Scritures: "Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceeds out of the mouth of God" (Mt. 4:4) AND "Holding fast the faithful word as he hath been taught, that he may be able by sound doctrine both to exhort and to convince the gainsayers" (Tit. 1:9)