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I Feel Unappreciated β€” How Should I Respond?

Ask Pastor John

Desiring God

John Piper, Unknown, 163859, Pastor, Ask, Theology, Desiring God, Religion & Spirituality/christianity, Christianity, Religion & Spirituality, Questions

4.8 β€’ 3.8K Ratings

πŸ—“οΈ 2 September 2020

⏱️ 11 minutes

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Summary

Ingratitude can make us feel unwanted and unnoticed. But our Father in heaven sees in secret, and he will more than make up for every thankless deed.

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0:00.0

How should we respond when we are unappreciated?

0:07.8

It's a question that we all face.

0:09.8

We all want to excel.

0:11.4

We all want to be noticed.

0:14.3

We all want to be thanked.

0:16.8

We all want our efforts to be valued.

0:18.8

It's only natural.

0:20.2

And instead of telling us to get used to not being appreciated, to get used to being

0:24.6

unappreciated, God actually gives us some incredible promises that we are being

0:30.9

appreciated in ways we may have never, ever expected.

0:35.6

Here's Pastor John preaching a way back in 1991 to explain.

0:40.6

Let me close with two illustrations of how this works out in situations, two kinds of situations.

0:46.8

First, the hurt that you experience when the good you do is not noticed or appreciated.

0:55.8

The hurt that you experience when the good that you do is not noticed or appreciated.

1:01.3

Parents who never say or said, good job, no matter how hard the kid tried, never said.

1:12.3

Good job.

1:14.5

It's the black hole of parenthood.

1:18.4

Children who never thank mom for thousands of meals and rides and laundering never say

1:26.7

a word.

1:29.0

How's the mom survive?

1:32.3

Husbands and wives who long ago stopped saying to each other, I balled the eyeball, I love

1:38.6

you.

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