God asks three things of every baptized person:

 God asks three things of every baptized person:

From the soul, true faith;

 From the tongue, truth;

And from the body, moderation.

Saint Gregory   the Theologian

That is why we should be grateful to the Lord and thank Him.

                    

We should glorify Him and offer Him all the thanks our soul holds.

And this does good, because as Saint Paisios writes:

“the person who gives thanks, who glorifies God and lives in gratitude, drives the devil completely away.”

The devil cannot stand gratitude or doxology.

But when a person starts complaining, what happens?

They bring him closer.

One complaint brings another, one misfortune brings the next, one streak of bad luck follows another—and then try finding a way out.

That is why, my brothers, “we ought to give thanks.”

(Fr. Ananias Kousténis)