First, let’s notice what Piper says about gratitude and faith. A definition: “We easily forget that gratitude exists because sometimes things come to us “gratis”—without price or payment. When that happens, we should feel a pleasant sense of the worth of what we’ve received and the goodwill behind it. This pleasant sense is what we call gratitude.”  (Future Grace [FG], 31) “God meant gratitude to be a spontaneous expression of pleasure in the gift and the good will of another