WAAAAAA!!!!

 We all know complainers.  NEVER satisfied---always complaining---never happy--always whining.  I have learned to run for the hills--duck behind a bush--develop a terrible cough when I spot one of them heading my way.  NO ONE wants to hear a litany of complaints!  

I am pretty certain most of us are guilty at some point of complaining.  Exactly what is a complaint?  Merriam-Webster gives this ~

expression of grief, pain, or dissatisfaction

THERE YOU GO---DISSATISFACTION.  We are not satisfied with the ways things are or what we have or  who is in charge or our station in life    ~ ~ ~

Malcontented comes to mind.

However you define it---none of us like listening to another's complaints.  

It really had not occurred to me that God also does not like hearing complaints until I read one of today's scriptures in my daily reading ~

"Now the people became like those 

who complain of adversity 

in the ears of the Lord;

and the Lord heard them and

His anger was kindled, 

and the fire of the Lord

burned around them

and consumed some at the outskirts of the camp."

Numbers 11:1

WHOA!  I would say at a minimum God does not like complainers.  To quote Pippa Gumball in the daily devotion- "I don't think God likes complaining.  This is quite a warning.  I'm going to be a little more careful in future!"

May we all pause and change our words of complaint to praises for blessings the next time we begin to lament our dissatisfaction.  Amen?  AMEN!