5 ways a thankless heart hurts your life

Thankless

It’s not a great word. It’s not a word that I want to describe my life, or me.

It’s definitely not the way I want to live out my faith.

But sometimes this is who I am.

When that starts to happen I need to slow it down and count the cost of my ingratitude.

It damages my faith.

I start to see God as my personal genie
I get upset when He doesn’t do what I think He should do, in the timing I think He should do it. I forget that Jesus willingly suffered humiliation and pain to stand in the gap for me, and that if He never did a single thing more, He’s given me more than I ever deserve.

Lord, thank You what You did for me.

It stunts my growth...continue reading

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Suzie Eller is a Proverbs 31 Ministries writer, ECPA bestselling author and Bible Gateway blogger. She writes devotions for Encouragement for Today, which reaches nearly a million women daily. She has published hundreds of articles in magazines such as Today’s Christian Woman, Woman’s World, and many others. ...She’s a woman who believes that our past shapes us, but does not limit us! ...She was listed as one of the top 100 influential Christian women bloggers in 2015 and 2016. Suzie can also can be found on Crosswalk.com, Life Letter Cafe, and Believe.com.

Most important, she’s mom to three and their spouses, wife to Richard, and “Gaga” to six beautiful grand babies under the age of five! Suzie lives in NW Arkansas. When she’s not writing, she’s with her family, hiking, dancing with the grand babies at the Farmer’s Market, or filling the kitchen with her love language of cooking and lots of people around the table.