Caustic Comments
Theme of the Week: Quit Your Bellyaching
Monday, March 31, 2008
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Key Bible Verse: These people are grumblers and complainers, doing whatever evil they feel like. Jude 16)Bonus Reading: Exodus 14:11-12;15:22-24;16:1-3;17:1-3
Over the years the rooms of the Rainey household have resounded with gripes about many things, from the food for lunch tasting unappetizing to who has to clean up the dishes. It became so bad one year that we all memorized Philippians 2:14: "In everything you do, stay away from complaining and arguing." That helped.
If you have a problem with grumbling, you're not alone. Griping and complaining are vocal amplifiers of one's heart attitude. The Old Testament book of Numbers could easily be renamed the Grumbler Chronicles. The children of Israel grumbled against Moses, Aaron, and God. They complained: "Manna for breakfast, lunch, and dinner! Is this all we get?" So God gave them quail instead. They had quail boiled and broiled until they were sick of it.
A little complaining is understandable, isn't it? But the complaining by the children of Israel wasn't a trivial matter, and God didn't view it lightly. He had delivered them from Egypt and was providing for them daily. They were just plain ungrateful. Like sulfuric acid, complaining can eat away at whatever it splashes on. Complaining corrodes joy and dissolves good attitudes.
—Dennis Rainey in Moments Together for Living What You Believe
My Response: Have I minimized the corrosive effect of complaint? How could I correct that?
Adapted from Moments Together for Living What You Believe (Regal, 2004) by permission.
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Teach me, Lord, to avoid complaining, since You are offended by the lack of trust it reveals.
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