There are some people where it really doesn't matter how much you do for them, they simply remain ungrateful. After providing a free place to live, employment possibilities, childcare and a variety of services they go to their friends and talk about how we never do anything for them. It is one of the most sad conditions I have witnessed. So lost from who they really are, so caught in their own vice that they couldn't recognize the good in this world if Jesus stood before them and blinked.
Well, maybe then they would.
However, gratitude is the sign of accepted grace. For the Christian, gratitude is the attitude of a person saved by grace through faith in Jesus Christ. A life lived in gratitude lives to pass on the gifts once and constantly received. In this gift giving we come to understand why it is better to give then receive, we come to understand the grace given to us more intimately, we start to understand why it is so deeply disappointing to God when a person refuses to give to others out of selfishness and then we can stand in more awe of him who died for us, ungrateful and entitled as we act, so that we have the opportunity to change.
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