“Do everything without complaining or arguing”
Philippians 2:14 ERV
Do you find yourself complaining about your circumstances and you feel justified in doing so? Maybe your job is too stressful and you complain about it to whoever will listen. Is your spouse or your family or your friends difficult to deal with and you want to complain about it. Are you complaining because you don’t think you have enough money?Perhaps, you are just simply complaining about the traffic or the weather.
Think long and hard and determine if you have a habit of complaining. Does God really mean “Do everything without complaining?” Is it okay to complain during hard times? Why did God say to not EVER complain?
I am quoting my son. He said “I give myself permission to complain to one person and no one else...
I complain to God and I call it praying!”
Wow! What if we lived our life with no complaining to anyone except God? First of all, God would love for us to bring all our hurts, all our needs, all our worries, all our desires and he could handle those. If I complain to Mark, I am expecting him to solve this problem and he is not able to. But God can.
We think that God will get upset with us when we complain. But he already knows what we think, it’s no secret to him. He says come to me with your problems.
“casting all your anxieties on him, because he cares for you.”
1 Peter 5:7 ESV
“Cast your burden on the Lord, and he will sustain you; he will never permit the righteous to be moved.”
Psalms 55:22 ESV
Second reason to not complain...I read this in a devotional by Rick Warren
“The Bible says that what makes a Christian different from anybody else is his attitude toward the little things. The Bible says if you have an attitude of being a grateful, positive person and not being a complainer, you will be so unique that you'll stand out like a star in a dark night. “
Do you want to be different from the rest of the world...quit complaining.
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