I have been in this mountain for a while. I always seemed to have a reason to complain. I mean things were not going my way( they still don't at times). I needed change which wasn't coming. For a moment its like my eyes were suddenly opened to see all the negative things that could go wrong and eventually went wrong.You can imagine my reaction to such situations.
Suddenly i began to attract negativity around me. I would sulk and everyone around me would jump to this sulking tune except for my husband who always saw the light at the end of the tunnel.
But wait? For how long will I walk around this mountain? I needed help but didn't know how, where and when to get help. Its when I realized the truth of the matter; I had allowed myself to be conformed to a pattern. That pattern knew not anything about thanksgiving. It only knew murmuring and complaining which became like a 'lifestyle'.I had forgotten what it meant to trust in my Savior and to be vulnerable in His presence. I knew something was a miss with regard to my asking without unwavering faith.
There is a rhetoric question I would like to pose now, When we complain, whom do we complain to?
I became fed up with my complaining and i realized it was time to get help. I decided to look for sermons on Complaining and if this be true, I must say the Lord has caught my attention through this man John MacArthur. His writings are quite profound. Listen to this;
"Remember Lamentations 3:39, “Why should any mortal being or anyone offer complaint in
view of his sins?” What do we have to complain about? So, Paul
gives us a general principle in verse 14( Philippians 2: 14-16). And it really speaks to us at a
time when we live in a culture of complaint. “Do all things without
grumbling or disputing. Do all things without grumbling or
disputing.” What do the “all things” refer to? The living out of
your inward salvation, the working out of your salvation. Here is the
pervasive attitude for the Christians’ experience. As we work out our
salvation, as we live our godly life, we are to do it without ever complaining about the circumstances which God has put around us.
We are to live a life without complaint. We are to rejoice always, to use
Paul’s later terminology, and again I say rejoice. We are to be content
whether we are based or whether we abound, whether we have much or whether we
have little, whether we like the circumstances or don’t like them. There
is no place for complaining"
John Mac Aurthor
Imagine if you and I lived our lives in thanksgiving rather than complaining, how would we be? I don't know about you but i feel complaining is a trap/BAIT set to divert our attention from God's purposes in our lives.
Truth is we are living in a crooked and perverse generation. A generation of murmurers and complainers.If we are to be differentiated, then it would be by the way we do our things: WITHOUT COMPLAINING As Philippians 2: 14-16 puts it.
Be encouraged child of God. I pray this will be helpful as we become thanks givers and shun complaining.
