Mark Clifton, Mark Hallock, and Dan Hurst discuss a few lessons they've learned from Christian Communicators Worldwide on the problem of complaining—and how Scripture offers us its cure.
Some Highlights:
- God commands me never to complain.
- God commands me to give thanks in every circumstance.
- God commands me to rejoice always, especially in times of trial.
- I always deserve much worse than what I am suffering now; in fact, I deserve hell.
- In light of the eternal happiness and glory I'll experience in heaven, this present trial is brief and insignificant, even if it were to last a lifetime.
- My suffering is far less than that which Christ suffered, yet He did not complain.
- To complain is to say God is not just.
- Faith and prayer exclude complaining.
- This difficulty is being used by God for my good, and it is foolish for me to complain against it.
- Those more faithful than I have suffered far worse than I and have done so without complaint.
- Complaining denies that God’s grace is entirely sufficient for me.
- The greatest suffering—the worst trial or difficulty—can never rob me of that which is of greatest value to me and my great joy: namely, the love of Christ.
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