FAITH CAPSULE: Complaint will complicate the journey of life.

Numbers 14

A complaint is an expression of dissatisfaction.
A character of a complaint, expression of dissatisfaction will position one for a painful journey of life.
In every way of life, complaint, the expression of dissatisfaction with a negative confession is not acceptable before God. The word of God warned: “Do not let your mouth cause your flesh to sin, nor say before the messenger of God that it was an error. Why should God be angry at your [a]excuse and destroy the work of your hands?” (Ecclesiastes 5:6)
The written word of God is a manual to lead all man for a glorious journey of life.
A failure to look away from God’s word is taking distance from God.
It was the complaint against God that set the Israelites for a painful journey of life.
The Bible records the complaints of the Israelites, “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 Israelites’ complaint before God was a negative confession in reaction to the spy’s report of the Promised Land. (Numbers 13:26-29)
With God, there is no place for complaint with a negative confession but a painful consequence.
What is your complaint with negative confession before God?
In the journey of life, with a complaint, complicated with pain will answer as a company.
Addition to a complaint is rebellion.
The Israelites at the coming out of the bondage of over four hundred years’ complaint marked them as rebellious before God.
As a believer, avoiding compliant before God is to be discipline trusting and hoping on God. One that knows to trust and hope in the Lord shall be blessed regardless of a 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 no doubt is the evidence of having hope in God.
Are you trusting and having hope on God, by remaining focus on God with no complaint and negative confession not to become a victim of derailment from the promise of God?
Avoiding complaint before God is the discipline to wait, knowing that God waits to act for those who wait on Him. Isaiah 64:4, encourages all, “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.”
Every failure to wait on God will result in compliant with a negative confession.
Complaint with negative confession should be avoided in the journey of life.

Prayer for today: Ask God to order your thoughts for His glory.