God notices the grateful heart. He took a praise-singing shepherd boy and made him a king. There's no hint of God getting out of sorts if we aren't thankful. But there is evidence that we're affected by his own ingratitude. What are the disastrous days? The nights I can't sleep and the hours I can't rest. Are we still grateful then? Jesus was. The Bible

records, on the night he was betrayed, the Lord Jesus took some bread and gave thanks to God for it.

It's not often you see the words betrayed and thanks in the same sentence, much less in the same

heart. In the midst of the darkest night of the human

soul, Jesus found a way to give things. Anyone can thank God for the light. Jesus teaches us to thank

God for the night, and he says to us, you'll get through this, and we will. This is Max Lakato.