It seems like that is our default setting as humans. We could be grateful but there's this other thing that says it's not quite good enough for us to be unreservedly thankful. God answered our prayer but... Jesus tells the parable of the master who hired laborers throughout the day for his vineyard. The only group of people he promised a specific wage to were the first hired. They worked 12 hours, others 9, others 6, some 3 and one group worked only 1 hour. At settle up time he gave the all the same wages. The first group had readily agreed it was a fair wage when hired. At the end of the day we get the, yeah, but. They worked a lot longer so it isn't fair now. Paul deals with that attitude in Romans, we have all sinned and the wages of sin is death. Our wages for faith is all the same, life, whether all your life on on your deathbed. That's not fair, it's grace. In Exodus 16.2-15 we see the same, we don't have meat here so we grumble. Wait, you were rescued from slavery and the killing of your male children. Yeah, but there we at least had meat and bread. Paul reminds the Philippians they were blessed to share in suffering for the sake of Christ. Yeah, but never seemed to enter Paul's mind. If the church is going to thrive and survive in a post Christian world, we have to get over the yeah, but mentality.
