We Have To Stop Complaining

You know when we continue to complain, when we are always complaining, it does not please The Lord.

In the Book of Numbers, in the Old Testament, Chapter 11 and verse 1, this is what the word says:

“Now when the people complained, it displeased the Lord for the Lord heard it and His anger was aroused.”

We have to stop complaining.

I remember the story of the little boy who was always complaining to his mother because he had no shoes to wear until one day he was walking down the street and he saw a little boy who had no feet and he stopped complaining.

You know the old farmer - he wakes up in the morning and the sun comes up and he says, “Here comes the drought.” Complaining!

And then at lunchtime, when the clouds start coming over, dark clouds full of rain, he says,” Here comes the floods.”

He is just never happy.

Now the best way to combat complaining is to start counting your blessings.

I remember so clearly, one year I had made a terrible mistake.

We all make mistakes, don’t we?

I seem to make more than most.

And I had calibrated my planting machine incorrectly and the maize crop was very poor when it came to the plant population.

In fact, the gaps were so big that in the early morning I could walk through my maize without my clothes even getting wet from the dew.

And I would ride around that crop, day after day, and get myself totally depressed by the poor plant population until one day The Lord spoke to me in my heart. He said, “Why are you always looking at the gaps in between the maize plants? Why don’t you start looking at the maize plants?”

And you know it changed my whole mindset because those maize plants had huge maize crops on them because they had so much room to grow.

And that particular year, we had a terrible drought and if I had had the correct plant population I was hoping for, I probably would not have even got a crop, but as a result, those crops were so nice and heavy and fat, I managed to make it through the drought.

Lets stop complaining and lets start thanking God and counting our blessings and you will find you will have a much better day.