Complaining can damage or even destroy your relationship with God, your relationships with other people and yourself. I remember when I has in darkness, depressed and feeling like was alone in the world. I complained about everything. I was looking for sympathy, I wanted someway to tell me everything would turn okay in the end. But, I was so busy complaining no one wanted to be around me. And I don’t blame them.
Philippians 2:14 says, “Do all things without complaining and disrupting,” That’s a clear command and not something anyone can do in their own strength.
I think of complaining as the enemy’s language. He’s probably the only likes to here it, because he likes us to suffer. It opens the door for him to cause trouble. On the other hand, praise and thanksgiving are God’s language.
Every day we all can find something we could complain about but they really aren’t worth the effort it takes to get upset and gripe about.
For example, I went to the post office to send a package overseas. The lady at the desk was so rude, she kept telling the zip code on the package was incorrect. I knew it wasn’t. But she refused to mail my package. I could have gone to her the postmaster and complained or told everyone the lady was rude. But what good would it have done? I just simply went to the next town, and I had no problem mailing the package. If you ask God to help you relax during your day.
Complaining comes from an ungrateful, prideful attitude of the heart. It causes us to feel that we shouldn’t be inconvenienced or have bad things happen to us. But in this world, we will have trials and tribulations. We have to deal with the pain ourselves. And complaining just makes things worse.
Now when someone else is inconvenienced or struggling it’s easy to think, “why are you making such a big deal out of this. I have to That’s when we need say, “Why is this happening to me?” And really think what your doing. I have found if I thank God for the small things, I am much calmer during the day. It can be something as simple as finding a parking place closer to the store. To not hitting any red lights in town.
Many people in the western world are spoiled by the conveniences of our culture. We’re used to instant gratification, getting what we want when we want it. We don’t like discomfort or sacrifice. We want everything to be easy. Sometimes this makes us have a selfish perspective in difficult situations and say things we wouldn’t shouldn’t say.
Th truth is I’ve grown the most during the hardest and most painful times of my life. The things that have I have experienced have caused me to become closer to God, I have done that, He has changed me. He has helped my develop a attitude of gratitude and humility. Which have brought real freedom to me.
I think back to my past and wonder how I am still alive. People I get to know tell me all the time that I’m a strong lady. The fact is I am strong because I didn’t have a choice.
Real freedom is being able to not have my way and still be happy and a peace. But, having real freedom is not an easy process. But, I tell you it’s worth it 100%. Gaining spiritual maturity I going to hurt.
Allowing God to take over every aspect of your life is not comfortable, and sometimes a real sacrifice is required. There are sometimes God will ask you to do something but you just don’t have the strength to do them.Believe me I have ignored God will many times. And I immediately regret it and sometimes there just going back and fixing doesn’t work. I have learned that whatever God tells you to do, do it because your blessings will be great. Even if you feel “there’s no way I can do that.” God always gives us grace to do it.
Psalm 19:14 says, “May the words of my mouth and this meditation of my heart be pleasing in your sight Lord…”
We must be in a constant attitude of gratitude if we are going to survive in this messed up world. We must resist temptation to complain a instead praise and thank God for who He is and what He has done for us. Then we can by God’s grace and through His strength, we all can overcome complaining and live each day with a new perspective.
From Pity to Praise 