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Stop complaining and start gaining (2)
'Do everything without complaining...' Philippians 2:14
'I'm addicted to you; don't you know that you're toxic?' sings Britney Spears in her hit single Toxic. Britney describes how she's become so connected to someone they're toxic, poisonous, there's no escaping them, she's become addicted. God says: 'Do everything without complaining ...' because complaining is toxic, it's poisonous, it damages and contaminates. There is nothing good about it. It acts like a drug dealer, giving people a taste and before they know it they're hooked. The more you do it, the more you want to do it, the harder it is to stop - it's addictive. Inject 'complaint poison' into your life and eventually it will 'toxify' every bit of it.
Subtly, it will pollute all your relationships, your church, your family, your neighbourhood. Sometimes we think we have to moan and complain, that we have no other choice there is only one option and that's to sound off. But do the maths - nothing positive can come from a negative. Complaining is a cop-out, it's what we do to avoid facing a problem. It actually makes us part of the problem instead of the solution. And ultimately, your complaining affects you more than anyone else.
The Psalmist said, '... I complained, and my spirit was overwhelmed ...' (Psalm 77:3). Every time you act like a Moaning Minnie you reinforce the power of 'complaint poison' over you, making yourself the victim of your own poisonous complaints. Before you say anything stop and think. Then 'do all things without complaining ...'
written by Bob Gass
'Do everything without complaining...' Philippians 2:14
'I'm addicted to you; don't you know that you're toxic?' sings Britney Spears in her hit single Toxic. Britney describes how she's become so connected to someone they're toxic, poisonous, there's no escaping them, she's become addicted. God says: 'Do everything without complaining ...' because complaining is toxic, it's poisonous, it damages and contaminates. There is nothing good about it. It acts like a drug dealer, giving people a taste and before they know it they're hooked. The more you do it, the more you want to do it, the harder it is to stop - it's addictive. Inject 'complaint poison' into your life and eventually it will 'toxify' every bit of it.
Subtly, it will pollute all your relationships, your church, your family, your neighbourhood. Sometimes we think we have to moan and complain, that we have no other choice there is only one option and that's to sound off. But do the maths - nothing positive can come from a negative. Complaining is a cop-out, it's what we do to avoid facing a problem. It actually makes us part of the problem instead of the solution. And ultimately, your complaining affects you more than anyone else.
The Psalmist said, '... I complained, and my spirit was overwhelmed ...' (Psalm 77:3). Every time you act like a Moaning Minnie you reinforce the power of 'complaint poison' over you, making yourself the victim of your own poisonous complaints. Before you say anything stop and think. Then 'do all things without complaining ...'
written by Bob Gass
