Recalibrate: Part 1- Start with Gratitude

A devotional series about reviving your heart, renewing your mind, and restoring your soul

There’s a video that’s been circulating the web for a few years now of a mother who surprises her teenage daughter with a new car. The mother walks into the house and tells the daughter to put on a blindfold because she has a surprise for her. As a viewer of the video, you might expect tears of joy and big hugs, but instead, the young lady scoffs and whines when she removes the blindfold and discovers that her mom bought her a Tesla instead of the Mercedes she really wanted. The teenager doesn’t only display disappointment but completely disrespects her mother in the video. There were people in the comments of the video who just could not believe this was real, it had to be a skit for clicks. While this girl and her mother may have been acting for views, there’s no doubt there are teenagers, kids, and adults all over the world with ungrateful hearts.

Have you ever caught yourself entertaining a sense of entitlement? I’m talking about the kind of entitlement that crushes humility an…