Psalm 9:1 – “I will give thanks to the LORD with all my heart; I will tell of all Your wonders.”
Psalm 13:6 – “I will sing to the LORD, Because He has dealt bountifully with me.”
Psalm 95:2 – “Let us come before His presence with thanksgiving.”
Psalm 100:4 – “Enter his gates with thanksgiving, and his courts with praise! Give thanks to him; bless his name!”
Psalm 107:1 – “Oh give thanks to the Lord, for he is good, for his steadfast love endures forever!”
Colossians 2:7 – “Rooted and built up in him and established in the faith, just as you were taught, abounding in thanksgiving.”
Colossians 3:15 – “And let the peace of Christ rule in your hearts, to which indeed you were called in one body. And be thankful.”
Philippians 4:6 – “Do not be anxious about anything, but in everything by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known to God.”
Conversely, scripture associates failing to give thanks or being ungrateful with darkness, futility, arrogance, self-centeredness, pride, and unholiness!
Romans 1:21 – “For although they knew God, they did not honor him as God or give thanks to him, but they became futile in their thinking, and their foolish hearts were darkened.”
Describing the last days, Paul wrote,
2 Timothy 3:2 – “For people will be lovers of self, lovers of money, boastful, arrogant, slanderers, disobedient to parents, ungrateful, unholy.”
Sometimes we don’t feel thankful because we are so focused on what seems wrong we lose sight of everything else. But the Word speaks to those times, too:
Psalm 116:17 – “I will offer to you the sacrifice of thanksgiving and call on the name of the Lord.”
1 Thessalonians 5:18 – “Give thanks in all circumstances; for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus for you.
Ephesians 5:20 – “Giving thanks always concerning all things in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ to God the Father.”
Philippians 2:14 – “Do everything without complaining and arguing.”
Hebrews 13:15 – “Therefore by Him let us continually offer the sacrifice of praise to God, that is, the fruit of our lips, giving thanks to His name.
God comforts us in every trouble, and we can be glad of that and look forward to sharing that same comfort with others who may need it (see 2 Corinthians 1:4).
The apostle Paul, who went through a thing or two (you can read about that in 2 Corinthians 11:23-28) wrote in Romans 5, “We can rejoice, too, when we run into problems and trials, for we know that they help us develop endurance.” (read that passage- there’s more to it!)