Complaining
I can remember a time when I would complain about EVERYTHING!! The men I dated, job I had, car I drove, family – just negative. Recently, as I was talking with some friends and I recalled being so negative at one point in my life that is was unhealthy. I begin to wonder when and how did I change. I guess I noticed that everything I’d gone through was for a purpose. It either made me stronger (challenged me to accomplish something) or brought me closer to the Lord. I also changed my thinking from a negative outlook of poor me, why me and begin to be thankful and truly happy for others. I realized that EVERYONE has problems. God wasn’t being any harder on me than the next person. With all of my murmuring and complaining He was still blessing me and I was too busy complaining to notice. At any given time in my life thousands would’ve lined up to be in my shoes. The Bible says God hates murmuring and complaining. I was walking around claiming to be a Christian but yet I was no different from the people of the world. I eventually made a decision to set myself apart. This morning I heard on the radio a song saying “If He never did anything else, He’s done enough” and I thought about complaining. What do I have to complain about!?! Yes times can get hard, and the tests can be challenging but looking back I have always made it out okay. Satan as yet to win. The nerve of me to think that I have the RIGHT to complain when the battle has already been won! I feel guilty for even thinking he owed me anything…life is a process but I am happy I am slowly realizing my role and right as a Christian and relying on Gods good timing. If I do my part God will do it and I now believe that. NO MORE COMPLAINING! Until next time…
Be Blessed
Miss Gossip
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I was very negative, but I believe I honestly couldn’t help it. Negativity was the environment I came out of and it was all I ever knew. It is amazing how sometimes we don’t realize some of our negative characteristics. I am so grateful to the Lord for bringing me out of my negative environment, but I feel sad also because negativity has a strong hold on most of my family members. As a result, I have to love them from a distance. I try to look at the positive in life now, but unfortunately, I feel that some patterns will never be broken for some people in my family.
I am just grateful that I finally get it. But my ‘getting it’ now, comes in large part, to the fact that I have physically removed myself from the situation. I get sad sometimes when I see the great relationships a lot of my friends have with their families. Sadly, I will never know what it feels like to be loved and supported unconditionally or to have a soft place to fall when you make a mistake instead of constant criticism and judgment.
But I know that everything happens for a reason and we are born into the situations we need to be in to mold us into the person God wants us to be. When I learned this lesson, I stopped complaining and realized all of the things I have to be grateful for.