"It is not a sin to eat; it is a sin to eat without gratitude." St. Anthony the Great

We don't realize how necessary and important gratitude is in our daily life. It is not that God needs gratitude. It is because we need to remind ourselves of all that God has and is doing in our life. Otherwise, we take God for granted and act as if we are the center of our existence.  We are like the ungrateful servant, whom after being forgiven a great debt could not show his gratitude by forgiving another of a much smaller debt. He received mercy and demanded justice.  It is easy for us to pray to God for our needs. But do we thank him whether we receive them or not or even before receiving them? The man of God is grateful at all times. The man of the world is not.