Are we being perceived as a sack of complaints? . . . Is that how we want to be remembered?

 

We are what we live. When everything seems to be fine with us and we are happy, it’s all OK, we smile for everything which reflects our state of living. That is why when we are in love, people notice it immediately. It seems as if we were living in a cloud; but when we land in our feet and start seeing things as they really are and collide with the problems that our lacking condition offers, we get frustrated and start complaining. That’s what happens to many of us when things don’t come out as we desire, and we complain and curse, and call all the demons we know and the ones we don’t too. When frustration is frequent we might become bitter with everyone around and could be rated as a “pest.” These are the people who don’t see anything good in life; everything is wrong and there’s no remedy whatsoever. That is called a pessimist which I dislike, differently, for instance, to the repairmen who say: “do not worry ma’am, if the solution does not exist for the problem, I’ll make it up, with God’s help.” That’s being positive, like my father was who did not complain for anything and was always “in love,” singing and smiling.

There’s a saying: “If there’s life, there’s hope.” And that is true. As long as we are in our bodies, here on earth, we have the privilege to call on our Creator and appeal for an answer on anything we might not understand. I’m convinced, if you call on him, you’re going to get it. You might not like it, but you’re going to get it. He said:  Call to me and I will answer you, and I will show you great and mighty things which you do not know. (Jeremiah 33.3)  Also if we really love God, we know He will reverse everything to work for our benefit, even if at first we do not like it (Romans 8.28)

Something that has worked for me is to look up to Jesus, He never complained about anything despite his sufferings on this earth.  Being the Creator of everything which was made to perfection and “thanks” to our desire to be like a god (the adversary’s lie), we disobeyed and became perishable, reason Christ left His kingdom of Glory and became a human baby to later die on a cross and shed his blood in order to save us from eternal damnation. He did not complain for our sin, nor cursed, nor called anybody to destroy us, because he created and loved us. He took our place to pay for our debt so we could spend our eternity with Him.  That is why when I want to complain, I might start, but remembering what He did for me I feel ashamed, apologize and try to think on a way to overcome the difficulty.

God is a loving father who wants our goodness. If He permits some pain it’s so we learn something good that might make us better. We are the ones who let “the adversary” lie to us to bring us misery. In the Word of God, Paul says it clearly:  For all have sinned and come short of the Glory of God, being justified as a gift by His grace through the redemption which is in Christ Jesus; whom God displayed publicly as a propitiation in His blood through faith. This was to demonstrate His righteousness, because in the forbearance of God He passed over the sins previously committed; for the demonstration, I say, of His righteousness at the present time, so that He would be just and the justifier of the one who has faith in Jesus.  (Romans 3.23-26)