FAITH CAPSULE: Is negative confession with the manner of complaint before God your pattern?

Numbers 14

What we give ourselves continually will become our pattern in life.
In the face of challenging situation, man should be self-disciplined by not confessing negative with a manner of complaining before God. Confessing negatively can be our way of complaining negatively consciously or unconsciously. The Israelites’ pattern of life was complaining and ended with negative confession stating, “So all the congregation lifted up their voices and cried, and the people wept that night.  And all the children of Israel complained against Moses and Aaron, and the whole congregation said to them, “If only we had died in the land of Egypt! Or if only we had died in this wilderness! Why has the Lord brought us to this land to fall by the sword, that our wives and children should become victims? Would it not be better for us to return to Egypt?” So they said to one another, “Let us select a leader and return to Egypt.” (Numbers 14:1-4) The negative confession of the Israelites was a complaint before God. Complaint was in response to spy’s report of the Promised Land in Numbers 13:26-29. Negative complaint is not acceptable before God but positive is compliment that is acceptable before God.
Complaining begets rebellion.
Giving to complaining will complicate the journey of life.
When the Israelites were set for journey out of bondage of over four hundred years to God’s Promised Land, complaint was their pattern of life. When negativity becomes a pattern in any journey of life, man is set to complicate journey. The truth is that God is true to perform and perfect His Word but worry, doubt, anxious will lead to complaint and a way of taking God for lie.
Avoiding compliant before God is to be discipline trusting and hoping on God. One that knows to trust and hope in the Lord is in a position to be blessed regardless of challenging situation. Jeremiah 17:7 stated the importance of trusting and hoping, “Blessed is the man who trusts in the Lord, and whose hope is the Lord.” Calling on God for His intervention is trust; waiting and not doubt is having hope. Man calls on God for intervention but not able to avoid complaining with negative confession. Are you confessing negative in a manner of complaining?
Avoiding complaint before God is the discipline to wait, knowing that God waits to act for those who waits on Him. Isaiah 64:4, encouraged us to wait stating, “For since the beginning of the world Men have not heard nor perceived by the ear, nor has the eye seen any God besides You, Who acts for the one who waits for Him.” Through the journey of the Israelites to the Promised Land, complaint was their pattern of life. Complaint terminated the Israelites and not get to their Promised Land. Our challenges in every journey is to avoid complaint but engage with trusting and hoping; waiting and not worry but worshiping before God.

Prayer for today: Ask God to deliver you from negative confession and the spirit of complaint before Him.