Stop complaining and start gaining (1)

Stop complaining and start gaining (1)
‘Do everything without complaining…’ Philippians 2:14 NIV
Moan, moan, moan, whinge, whinge, whinge, whine, whine, whine! Complaining; we hear it all the time and come on, be honest, you do it too, right?
‘Oh no I don’t!’ we protest to anyone who dares accuse us of arguing. 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 excuses like those used by Adam and Eve. Can you believe it? Even the first two humans, 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 whose 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! Paul warns us not to fall into the same 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…’ (1 Corinthians 10:10-11 NCV) So clean up your verbal act! Decide to detect, reject and eject all complaining language from your vocabulary.
SoulFood Reading: Ruth 1-4, Luke 12:35-48, Ps 119:41-48, Pr 17:17