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"Do all things without
grumbling or questioning, that you may be blameless and innocent, children of
God without blemish in the midst of a crooked and twisted generation.” Then you will shine among them like stars in
the sky as you hold firmly to the word of life. (Philippians 2:14-16)
The following was an email that made the
rounds just after 9/11.
It was called, “What a Difference a Day Makes. "
On
Monday, we e-mailed jokes.
On
Tuesday, we did not.
On
Monday, we were fussing about praying in school.
On
Tuesday, we would have been hard pressed to find a school where someone was not
praying.
On
Monday, our heroes were athletes.
On
Tuesday, we relearned who heroes are.
On
Monday, there were people trying to separate us by race, sex, color, and creed.
On
Tuesday, we were all holding hands.
On
Monday, we were irritated that our rebate checks had not arrived.
On
Tuesday, we gave money away gladly to people we had never met.
On
Monday, we were upset that we had to wait 5 minutes in a fast food line.
On
Tuesday, we stood in line for 3 to 5 hours to give blood for the dying.
On
Monday, we argued with our kids to clean up their rooms.
On
Tuesday, we couldn’t get home fast enough to hug our kids.
On
Monday, we went to work as usual.
On
Tuesday, we went to work, but some of us didn’t come home.
On
Monday, we had families.
On
Tuesday, we had orphans.
On
Monday, September 10th, life felt routine.
On
Tuesday, September 11th, it did not.
What a difference
a day makes.
If we monitored your conversations numbered your moments of giving
thanks against your complaining, nagging, grumbling moments which would have
the greater number?
We
all have had reasons in our life to grumble and complain about something. The
question is… how often do we yield to the temptation?
And how much good does the grumbling do?
A single shot complaint is acceptable. We’re human and it is good to get it out of
our system. But a machinegun affect that goes on and on
and on is unacceptable.
Jesus was crucified because grumbling had
taken over the conversations of the high priests.
They
grumbled about what He was doing, what he wasn’t doing, where he spent his time
and with whom, and what He was saying.
Finally, grumbling so took over their
thinking that compassion went out the window and they were downright nasty when
it came to decision time.
But then that is the way it always works.
You
won’t find very many nice people who are also grumblers.
They grimace and they shout and they gossip and they fret and
they turn committee meetings into utter disaster meetings, and they upset
churches and corporations and homes.
They are an ongoing pain in the neck that
keeps life messy and miserable for themselves and everyone around them.
The
Apostle Paul was good at poking holes at human frailties…and what he saw taking
place in the church at Philippi displeased him
no small amount.
Complaining and complaining and
complaining some more. Disruptive, disturbing, destructive. True
then…true now.
He
probably knew that churches in the future, even unto the 21st
century, would still be practicing this monstrosity of the soul…and so, seeing
the fault he went after it and wrote, “Do everything without complaining or arguing, so that you may become
blameless and pure, children of God without fault in a crooked and depraved
generation, in which you shine like stars in the universe” (Phil
2:14)
Listen
to this little incident.
A
man had considered joining a certain monastery for a long time but when he
finally looked into the matter he was somewhat taken back when he learned that
to join he had to accept their rule that he could only say two words a year;
and that at the end of each year.
But he really wanted to join the
monastery, so he acquiesced.
At
the end of the first year he appeared before the Head Monk and spoke his two
words, “Food’s bad.”
Another
year passed and again he stood before the Head Monk. He spoke his two-word allotment a second
time, “Bed’s hard.”
A
third year came to an end and as he stood before the Head Monk, he said, “I quit.”
“Doesn’t surprise me at all,” said the Head Monk, “All you’ve done
since you got here is complain.”
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