Faith Capsule: To be contentious could be a track for complaining to gather its speed.
Exodus 17:1-7
After having been privileged to see a New Year, what else do you expect from the Lord that is not yet at hand? The one that cause you to see another year is more than worthy to be trusted for performing and bringing to manifestation all of your expectation. If you have prayed; if you are still praying, trust that the Lord that performs in prayer will perfect in thanksgiving. To think of thanking God is different from to think and give Him thanks. In this New Year, as one with reasonable prayer account before God begin to render more of thanksgiving to God that you may provoke Him to perfect your expectation. Do you complain more than compliment God? Where is your complaint coming from? Being contentious can lead to complaining. To be contentious could be a track for complaining to gather its speed. In the journey of life, the spirit of complaining will not give life, but rather absolute death. In the midst of unforeseen situations, who should man complain to? What is it that can justify complaint over what one cannot control? The spirit of complaining is nothing but a negative approach unto God who is in control of Heaven and earth. Complaining can also be a way of pointing a finger in the face of the One who holds our time in His hand.
When circumstances beyond control takes its place in man’s life, complaining is not an option to dwell on. If you have arrived at a junction where you consider there is nothing in place that is worth thanking God for, why don’t you turn onto thanking God for the past and for what He has already done? It is not time for complaining. As one with a heart of appreciation and gratitude, resist complaint and persist in thanksgiving.The children of Israel who were delivered from Egypt were the greatest victim of complaint. Complaining did not take their life away in bondage, but it took it after they were out of bondage. Complaint will not announce itself before it establishes itself inside the life of its victim. It is written, Exodus 17:2-3, “Therefore the people contended with Moses, and said, ‘Give us water, that we may drink.’ So Moses said to them, ‘Why do you contend with me? Why do you tempt the LORD?’ And the people thirsted there for water, and the people complained against Moses, and said, ‘Why is it you have brought us up out of Egypt, to kill us and our children and our livestock with thirst?’” It is evident that they started with contention before taking it to the level of complaining. It is worth to be commending Him and not complaining to Him. Keep on praising Him and He will keep on raising you.
Prayer for today: Ask God for His goodness and mercy to deliver you from every spirit of complaint.