Ever since last Wednesday night at church and hearing Pastor Tony's sermon on complaining this topic has really been on my heart. So I just needed to write about my thoughts about complaining and bring out a few of the ideas he shared with us as well.
I look up tonite in Strong's Concordance how many times the "word" complain or any form of the word is used in the Bible and it shows (18) times. My first thought was what? it has to be more than that. Nope just (18) times is all. OK so that's just how many times this "word" is used in scripture but the number of times complaining was done in the Bible I have no idea. It would have to be in the hundreds and maybe even thousands. People complain about things or other people but they never try to do anything to make it better.
Why do we complain?
Do we have a right to complain?
Did Jesus complain while He was on the cross dying for us? a big fat NO!
If we think about each day we live probably the highest percentage of it is complaining, moaning, groaning. Is that all we have anymore?
What about some JOY! why not let go of complaining and replace it with some joy.
Beth Moore says "Joy keepers are soul winners".
How can we reach souls for Christ if our souls are full of complaining? If we are wanting to grow in the Lord this would be a great place to start for something to throw away (in the garbage) out of our life.
1 comment:
You are so right. Complaining affects much more than our own attitude. Thanks for sharing!
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