Think about it:
Don't do ANYTHING that you are going to COMPLAIN about later.
Is it eating that extra piece of cake?
Is it staying up too late at night?
Is it doing something that you know you shouldn't be doing,
but you do it anyway?
Or
Is it something that has happened to you beyond your control?
Is it ______________?
What is your ANYTHING?
No matter how it came about,
it is real.
Did you know that the first complainer was Adam?
He said yes to eat the apple that he knew that he wasn't supposed to eat!
He COMPLAINED to GOD that
“the woman you put here with me –
she gave me some fruit from the tree, & I ate it” (Genesis 3:12).
Adam blamed GOD.
COMPLAINING leads to BLAME~
Because it has to go somewhere.
Who do you BLAME for what you are COMPLAINING about?
Is it you?
Are you the initiator?
Is it someone else
or
something else that is out of your control?
COMPLAINING
has no power to take away what you just did,
what happened to you,
or what you may have to do.
It just adds more weight.
So how do we lose this pound of
COMPLAINING
no matter what is causing the
COMPLAINT~
COMPLAIN to GOD!
Yup.
Send your COMPLAINT to HIM.
COMPLAINT Defined:
babbling, communication, meditation, prayer, talk.
"I cry aloud to the LORD. I lift up my voice to the LORD for mercy. I pour out before HIM my COMPLAINT; before HIM I tell my trouble"
(Psalm 142:1-2).
GOD is all ears.
GOD listens.
GOD will take your pound of COMPLAINT and
release you from carrying its burden of BLAME.
So let's FAST from COMPLAINING today.
Every time you want to
COMPLAIN,
Immediately send your
COMPLAINT
upward and "Trust in Him at all times, O people.
Pour out your heart before Him.
GOD is a safe place for us" (Psalm 62:8).
But most importantly
you will actually lose 2 pounds today,
because if you
FAST from COMPLAINING
there will be
no
BLAME.
So I ask you,
what if you had nothing to COMPLAIN about?
Would you
Could you
actually
experience
"JOY"
(listen to the song below)