my wife, margaret and i just came back from a weekend over in rhode island. we had a great time during the day but our nights were tough. we were both coming down with some type of cold or flu and our bed was a double and we are used to a king. so nights had the potential to ruin our days but they didn't.
i have found that complaining can kill a person's joy. it makes you unhappy, everybody else around you unhappy. but the problem is that it is a hard habit to break.
you see we are naturally negative, some more than others. we tend to look at the bad things in life. but more than that we are conditioned by society. bad news makes the headlines. we are bombarded continuously with what's wrong with everything. by our own nature and by our conditioning we tend to develop the habit of complaining.
now the bible says GOD wants CHRISTians to be different. philippians 2.14-15 (ms), do everything readily and cheerfully—no bickering, no second-guessing allowed! go out into the world uncorrupted, a breath of fresh air in this squalid and polluted society.
i know you have a right to complain but let's go out today as a breath of fresh air. we have enough complainers. let's be different for GOD and others.
just a thought from the front porch...
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