Ruth, a former office manager for a company in Boca Grande Florida was recently charged with grand theft and scheming to defraud the company where she handled billing and payroll for over ten years. Investigators discovered that she embezzled $181, 674 from the business. Her ingratitude, in stealing from the company which employed her and provided her livelihood, reminds one of how so many of us abuse the goodness of the Lord, as we take all his benefits but then ignore Him and leave Him totally out of our lives. He provides life, health, even the air we breathe, and often we are unthankful. The “goodness of the Lord” should cause deep gratitude. Sadly, often it does not. The Good Book warns, “Be sure your sin will find you out.” It urges, “Do not be deceived, whatever a man sows that he will also reap.” God is so good to all of us. Let’s respond with gratitude, and put Him first in our lives.

Pastor Alex Rockwell