- from Future Grace by John Piper
There is a sense in which gratitude and faith are interwoven joys that strengthen each other.
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| Giving thanks for all things in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ. Ephesians 5:20 |
As gratitude joyfully revels in the benefits of past grace, so faith joyfully relies on the benefits of future grace. Therefore when gratitude for God's past grace is strong, the message is sent that God is supremely trustworthy in the future because of what he has done in the past. In this way faith is strengthened by a lively gratitude for God's past trustworthiness. On the other hand, when faith in God's future grace is strong, the message is sent that this kind of God makes no mistakes, so that everything he has done in the past is part of a good plan and can be remembered with gratitude. In this way gratitude is strengthened by a lively faith in God's
future grace.
