Gratidão ao Senhor
A gratidão ao Senhor é resposta de amor diante da bondade divina. Louvar a Deus com cântico e magnificá-lo com ação de graças — isso é o que agrada ao Senhor.
Agradecer ao Senhor
Deus transformou nosso lamento em dança. Ele é digno de toda gratidão, em todo tempo e em toda circunstância.
For my life is wasted with grief: and my years in sighs. My strength is weakened through poverty and my bones are disturbed.
I am become a reproach among all my enemies, and very much to my neighbours; and a fear to my acquaintance. They that saw me without fled from me.
The perverse heart did not cleave to me: and the malignant, that turned aside from me, I would not know.
Deliver me, O my God, out of the hand of the sinner, and out of the hand of the transgressor of the law and of the unjust.
Gratidão constante
Em tudo dai graças. Tudo o que Deus criou é bom, quando recebido com ação de graças e paz no coração.
In all things give thanks; for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus concerning you all.
For every creature of God is good, and nothing to be rejected that is received with thanksgiving: For it is sanctified by the word of God and prayer.
And let the peace of Christ rejoice in your hearts, wherein also you are called in one body: and be ye thankful.
They that are vain observe vanities, forsake their own mercy.