Ouch!! Complaining is actually quite a loathsome and strange disease! It is strange because we don't seem to realize that we have it, and it is loathsome to those whom we converse with often! And---saddest of all, it displeases the Lord when we complain.
We read in the 11th chapter of Numbers: "And when the people complained, it displeased the Lord: and the Lord heard it:"
The Lord is not pleased when we complain about our circumstances. Perhaps we need to look back at the children of Israel. They seemed to easily forget all of God's marvelous blessings -- the many miracles He wrought in freeing them from slavery and providing all their needs through the wilderness journey! They seemed to be repeatedly complaining about one thing after another. In fact, the Apostle Paul tells us in the book of I Corinthians:
"But with many of them God was not well pleased: for they were overthrown in the wilderness. Now these things were our examples, to the intent that we should not lust after evil things, as they also lusted, . . . Neither murmur ye, as some of them also murmured, and were destroyed of the destroyer."
In Philippians 2:14, we are admonished to "Do all things without murmurings and disputings." I think that means without Complaining! We can be confident that our Heavenly Father is allowing every difficulty for some good purpose.
Let's determine to be "Praisers" instead of "Complainers"!!
"I will bless the Lord at all times: His praise shall continually be in my mouth."
--Psalm 34:1
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