Thank You or Fuck You

I have come to a conclusion recently that we live from a place of either "thank you" or "fuck you".
Lets start with "fuck you". This is a place of personal control or power of the immediate world. It is the sense that you are in complete control of your life and in the end, simply put, that you are GOD!

For example: You are late for work and you are in your car in traffic... You respond to the car in front of you. "Get the FUCK out of my way I am late."
Or you are having a conversation with someone, and you totally disagree with what they are saying, and you respond, who the fuck are you, you don't have a fucking clue what you are talking about. Now in both cases you might not have the guts to vocalize this, but you do think it in your head and feel it deep, deep, down in your heart. "Fuck you!" "I am at the center of the universe! You are not!" This again is what I call the GOD complex that all of us have to one degree or another.

The other side of the coin is the response of "Thank you".
This is a place that you realize that you are not actually GOD, but God's created image bearer.
Understanding this changes the world. It is the understanding that everything good gift comes directly from GOD. It is not something you have earned or something incredible that you did or said. You know that you are not GOD, but actually GOD is GOD. This means that all control and power that I once desired is released to GOD, the only true and rightful Creator/Gift Giver.
"Thank you" is your response to GOD. At the end of the day you might want to do or say something else to GOD that you feel could possibly at least equalize GOD's grace toward you, but in the end saying "thank you" to GOD is the only thing that meets you directly where you are at. "Thank you" is your worship, "Thank you" is your life giving phrase like no other phrase can come near. With out it we are left empty and incomplete. With it we are fully human, living out of the well of grace that GOD has created us for. "Thank you" is where people find life. "Fuck you" is where people find death.

We need to practice the art of gratitude and thanksgiving because we are the "thank you" people. The more richly thankful we become, the closer we are to GOD. This is the place where all power, control, and authority is given to GOD. He alone is Lord and Messiah and you and I are not. It is the place of submission, service, humility and an utter abundance if unimaginable life, joy, and peace. Remember it is JESUS who invented humility... And it is us his Spirit filled people that learn from him and pick up where he left off.

"Thank you!"