What is Your GQ?
Your GQ is not referring to your greatest question or good qualities or even your general quirks (which your spouse or friends will know well). It is referring to your gratitude quotient.
You see, a quotient is a measure, a proportion, an amount of something. And one of the quotients that God wants a whole lot of is gratitude. Notice:
“In everything give thanks; for this is God’s will for you in Christ Jesus” (1 Thess. 5:18).
"always giving thanks for all things in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ to God, even the Father" (Eph. 5:20).
“Therefore as you have received Christ Jesus the Lord, so walk in Him, having been firmly rooted and now being built up in Him and established in your faith, just as you were instructed, and overflowing with gratitude.” (Col. 2:6–7) The word “overflowing” means to superabound (in quantity and quality), be excessive, superfluous, to excel.
So what is God’s will for your life? To let gratitude permeate every aspect and circumstance of your life. It is a gushing gratitude (like blood from a wound, water from an open fire hydrant, like the excitement around a newborn baby).
I like Gushers (they are hexagon-shaped fruits snack filled with a thick sweet liquid that gushes out when you bite it). Gushers permeate just as God wants gratitude to saturate and overcome any vestige of complaining, moaning, groaning, and griping.
God’s gratitude quotient is based upon what God tells us in Colossians 2:6, “just as you received Christ Jesus the Lord.” Paul put it this way: “In Him we have redemption through His blood, the forgiveness of our trespasses, according to the riches of His grace which He lavished on us” (Eph. 1:7–8a). John told us “For of His fullness we have all received, and grace upon grace” (John 1:16).
It is a forgiving grace that saves us from the penalty of sin.
It is an empowering grace that saves us from the power of sin.
It is a future grace that will save us from the presence of sin.
Our GQ is re-fueled when we look vertically to all that our gracious God did for us through the sacrifice of His Son for our sin and we saturate our life with that truth.
Pastor Jeff
Foundational Faith Statement #10: What do the Scriptures primarily teach?
The Scriptures primarily teach what people are to know and believe about God, and how He commands them to live (John 5:39, 20:31; 2 Tim. 3:15–17; Ps. 119:105).