It is not pleasant receiving a gift that is given out of obligation. I would rather not receive a gift, than to get one to satisfy another's ego or guilt.
It is also agonizing to give a gift that is not appreciated. We want to have a sweet heart and continue to give even if we do not receive, however the pain remains from the lack of love that we feel, when there is no sense of gratefulness for what we have done.
We have all experienced these attitudes from time to time. Can we imagine how God feels when we are not brimming with gratitude for all that He has given us, even our very lives?
How would we feel if we suffered an agonizing death while being ridiculed and hated by the very people we created? And, even then He reviled them not in the face of the immense injustice.
He, Christ Jesus, gave and gave and gave to the very shedding of His blood, only to be brutally murdered and reviled for His gifts.
After pondering these thoughts, do we still take sin lightly, as though it does not matter?
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