Complaining – There’s room for
legitimate complaining, but if you let this deadly disease of attitude –
complaining – loose it will conquer you.
Complaining can take over your life.
Destroy you and leave you without
anything.
Nobody wants to take along a
complainer.
Nobody wants to promote a
complainer.
Nobody wants to live with one.
Nobody wants to be a partner of one.
Nobody
wants to have one around.
Complaining leaves you out of more opportunities
than you can possibly imagine if you let it take over and grab you by the
throat.
If you don’t think complaining is
bad ask the children of Israel of Old Testament fame.
They are typical of us all, but
their story just happened to get in the Book.
The story says children of Israel
are slaves in Egypt.
God performed a series of dazzling
miracles and gets them out.
Now they have their freedom and are
heading for the Promised
Land. But… the tragedy of the
story – they never got there.
Reason
– from day one they started to complain.
They griped about the food – they
had just been delivered from slavery and they are complaining about the food?!
They whined and cried and griped
about the water.
In the desert they HAD water to
drink, but… it didn’t taste that good?!
They whined and complained about the
leadership… that had just delivered them from slavery?!
They complained that it was too hot,
too cold, too far, too difficult, too rocky.
They whined and cried for years –
forty to be exact.
Finally, God said I’ve had it – Trip
Cancelled!
The story says that they died in the
desert and never reached the Promised Land – after all that trouble!
I
believe this story teaches two things:
1) Indulge in complaining long
enough and you will get your future cancelled – future promotions, future
opportunities.
2) Even God himself can only take so
much complaining.
I think you get my point.
Complaining
is not for the winners in life.
You must focus on what you can do,
not what you cannot.
And you must focus on the
opportunities not the difficulties.
When you do this you will not only
inspire yourself but you will be an example for others to follow as.
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