It’s amazing how much we can complain. We complain about
ourselves, society, presidential candidates and often we wrap ourselves around
people that have the same complaints. We can be friends with someone as long as
we have the same dislikes as them. There can be so many negative statements
online that sometimes I wonder why I even have social media?
It’s amazing how much being liked/disliked plays a role in
popularity. I am a fan of sports talk radio and I have started to enjoy The Dan
Lebatard Show. For the longest time I struggled to listen but the more I do,
the more I enjoy the unique aspects that I used to dislike. He mentioned on his
show he is more hated right now then ever before. One would lead to believe,
they might look at ending his show. Yet, while being so hated his numbers are
through the roof. He has the highest numbers on his show then ever before by a
lot. It’s often on social media he retweets what his haters say about him too.
People are even famous for being horrible. Jimmy Kimmel has a bit on this,
“Celebrities read mean tweets.” When did it become cool to complain?
Paul share a short verse that is hard to follow Philippians
2:14…
“Do everything without grumbling or arguing.”
Some of the shortest verses are the hardest to follow. Grumbling
in the verse focuses on expressing one’s discontent. The word “Do” is used as a present tense,
Paul meant for this to be done continually. Paul might have even looked far
back to the negative attitude of the Israelites who often complained about
Moses and turned to God instead. Can we truly become people that do not
complain?
It can be easy to complain. It is way easier to complain
about life then it is to say what we enjoy about life. It’s easier to tear
someone down then it is to lift them up. It’s easier to be sarcastic in life
then to be real in a positive way. This can be such a struggle in life. Do
everything without complaining. I fall short of this so many times, but
following Jesus calls us to live beyond a worldly way. Nobody said following
Jesus’s commands would be easy. Yet if we tried to live a life without
grumbling or arguing, the world would be a better place. Try to encourage more then living in discontent. My goal today is to try and focus
on not complaining. How about you?
Have a great day.
