How many times have you felt perfectly fine and content about something or someone until someone complained? Complaining is contagious. COMPLAINING INFECTS THE ATTITUDES OF OTHERS When we have a bad attitude long enough, it becomes our character…more on that in a moment. It takes us from beyond a bad mood to a bad attitude. Most of the time we even wear it on our expressions. Whatever our negative attitude, complaining just makes it more negative. If we’re frustrated it makes us more frustrated, if we’re discontent it makes us more discontent. To the contrary if we’re angry it makes us more angry. If we’re honest with ourselves, complaining never makes us feel better.
There is a difference in a humble lamentation and an arrogant complaint. (Psalm 6, Psalm 13, Psalm 35, Psalm 94 are just a few). In all of the Psalms where the psalmist was questioning God about troubles did the Psalm not end with praise and thanks giving. There is not one situation when one is complaining that they could not instead find a reason to give thanks or praise. Plain and simple…God expects us to be thankful and content in all things (Philippians 4:11-13). HERE ARE 7 REASONS WHY GOD HATES COMPLAINING SO MUCH… 1.COMPLAINING IS THE OPPOSITE OF THANKSGIVINGġ8 in everything give thanks for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus for you. God hates complaining so much he allowed His own children to suffer death to serve as an example of the level of judgment that complaining deserves…ġ0 nor complain, as some of them also complained, and were destroyed by the destroyer.īut, don’t we have a right to complain sometimes? Especially when some things are beyond our control? Why does God hate complaining so much? In fact, it was their complaining that made an 11-day trip last 40 years. One of Israel’s greatest, most consistent sins while in the wilderness was that of complaining and murmuring.
He doesn’t hate complainers, but He does hate it when we complain. You may be very generous in your giving … You may not be a fornicator, an adulterer, a drunk, a murderer…you may go to church every time the doors open. No matter how much we may try to live upright, we will always remain lacking in some area. The rich young ruler in the books of Matthew 19 and Mark 10 told Jesus that he kept all of the commandments from his youth up, but the Lord quickly reminded him that he was lacking something.