Perpetual Unhappiness: It's our attitude
In his article Don't take life for granted Ruben Navarrette writes,
I remember a few years becoming astonished when I came across 2 Timothy 3. I was astonished because of a particular sin named among other sins. The Apostle Paul sounded the alarm about coming perilous times because such times would be filled with people who are “lovers of money, boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy, unloving, unforgiving, slanderers, without self-control, brutal, despisers of good, traitors, headstrong, haughty, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God” (2 Timothy 3:2-4)! Did you notice the sin of ingratitude tucked in-between disobedient to parents and unholy? Being ungrateful is way more than simply forgetting to say thank you, but ingratitude is a disposition of the heart and ultimately a lifestyle.
"As Americans, we've become victims of our own success. We've strayed so farHis observation reminded me of Louis C.K.’s appearance on Conan O Brien.
from the example of our immigrant parents and grandparents that we bear no
resemblance to that model. Weighed down by own bloated sense of entitlement and
self-importance, we've lost our appetite for competition and we prefer to talk
instead about what we think we ‘deserve.’ At the first sign of adversity, we
play the victim, give up, or fall apart. With all the blessings that come with
living in the world's most remarkable country, still we complain. We retreat. We
whine."
I remember a few years becoming astonished when I came across 2 Timothy 3. I was astonished because of a particular sin named among other sins. The Apostle Paul sounded the alarm about coming perilous times because such times would be filled with people who are “lovers of money, boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy, unloving, unforgiving, slanderers, without self-control, brutal, despisers of good, traitors, headstrong, haughty, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God” (2 Timothy 3:2-4)! Did you notice the sin of ingratitude tucked in-between disobedient to parents and unholy? Being ungrateful is way more than simply forgetting to say thank you, but ingratitude is a disposition of the heart and ultimately a lifestyle.
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