The Cure For Complaining

"They did not believe His word, but complained in their tents...."  (From Psalm 106:24, 25)

It is simple.  If I don't, "believe His Word," I will complain.  The word translated, "complained," means, "murmur, whisperer."  Notice it is under the breath, not outward so much as inward.  In many ways it is the worst of rebellion.  If someone stands face to face with me and complains, criticizes me, at least I know they may be interested in some resolution to a conflict.  But people who murmur, whisper, are underhanded, set on their own ways and will, want no resolution.  Most often they are angry people, angry with God, angry with life, and and angry with people who seem to have a better life.

"Believe," in Biblical Theology means to obey.  Biblical believing is not a full "scientific" understanding of God's words and ways.  Rather, it is an agreement with His Words and a life which acts upon those Words.  No one in all human history ever understood the mystery of God's universe and the "extent" of His Greatness, the Godhead, Three in One, Father, Son Jesus, and Holy Spirit.  Any who start or try will be found a fool.  "Behold, to obey is better than sacrifice," and, I might add, everything else.

Jesus came to you and me when we were Hell-bound, lost sinners, and as Ephesians says, "having no hope and without God in the world.  But now in Christ Jesus you who once were far off have been brought near by the blood of Christ."  Jesus did not so much ask people to understand what He was about as to obey what He was about; "Come to Me," and, "Follow Me."  If you and I believe and obey this Word, there will be no, "murmur[ing], whisper[ing] in their tents"--------- just, "the sound of rejoicing."

Father, in Jesus' Name, thank You for the greatest "antidote" to complaining the world has ever encountered, "[Your] Word."  Amen.
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