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Stop complaining and start gaining (1)
'Do everything without complaining...' Philippians 2:14
Moan, moan, moan, whinge, whinge, whinge, whine, whine, whine! Complaining; we hear it all the time and come on, be honest, you do it all the time too, right? 'Oh no I don't!', we complain in protest to anyone who might dare accuse us of being difficult or argumentative.
We can do it so often we don't even realise we're doing it. 'It wasn't me it was her.' Or, 'He made me do it, it's not my fault.' Sound familiar? They're actually words from Adam and Eve. Can you believe, even the first two human beings to be created, living in the lap of luxury with God, found something to beef about? As soon as they ate that forbidden fruit they were arguing and moaning about who's fault it was - it didn't help then (they both got chucked out of paradise) and it doesn't help now either.
That's why God says to you today, 'Do everything without complaining ...' He knows it gets us nowhere; He knows we'll only end up making things worse for ourselves. Read Exodus or Numbers, and you'll hear God's people whinging big time!
In 1 Corinthians 10:10-11, Paul warns us not to fall into the same argumentative trap: 'Do not complain as some of them did; they were killed by the angel that destroys. The things that happened to those people are examples... written down to teach us ...' (NCV). So clean up your verbal act! Decide to detect, reject and eject all complaining language from your vocabulary.
written by Bob Gass
'Do everything without complaining...' Philippians 2:14
Moan, moan, moan, whinge, whinge, whinge, whine, whine, whine! Complaining; we hear it all the time and come on, be honest, you do it all the time too, right? 'Oh no I don't!', we complain in protest to anyone who might dare accuse us of being difficult or argumentative.
We can do it so often we don't even realise we're doing it. 'It wasn't me it was her.' Or, 'He made me do it, it's not my fault.' Sound familiar? They're actually words from Adam and Eve. Can you believe, even the first two human beings to be created, living in the lap of luxury with God, found something to beef about? As soon as they ate that forbidden fruit they were arguing and moaning about who's fault it was - it didn't help then (they both got chucked out of paradise) and it doesn't help now either.
That's why God says to you today, 'Do everything without complaining ...' He knows it gets us nowhere; He knows we'll only end up making things worse for ourselves. Read Exodus or Numbers, and you'll hear God's people whinging big time!
In 1 Corinthians 10:10-11, Paul warns us not to fall into the same argumentative trap: 'Do not complain as some of them did; they were killed by the angel that destroys. The things that happened to those people are examples... written down to teach us ...' (NCV). So clean up your verbal act! Decide to detect, reject and eject all complaining language from your vocabulary.
written by Bob Gass
