Dear Community!
The English historian, thinker and essayist.
Thomas Carlyle (1795-1881), said:
Man should never complain and murmur about the times in which he lives, because this will not do him any good. On the other hand, it's always up to you to improve them.
After taking my mother to the doctor, who suffers from terminal cancer, I had many concerns to ask God when we got home, however, the faith and optimism that my mother reflected on her face, surprised the doctor who attended and decreased the desire to complain I had.
Making certain complaints, in thesis, is not a sin.
Even many things only work in our world when he complains. And we also often move only by hearing the complaints of others against us. If the baby did not cry of hunger, many parents will not remember that they have to feed him. This is our world.
The problem is when the claim blinds our eyes to the blessings that God operates in us and for us daily. We become murmurs and ungrateful.
It was Israel's problem in the desert. There were many reasons for dissatisfaction, the nation was taken to the desert: a place of solitude, sterile places; that the people were completely dependent on divine resources.
But there were also even greater reasons to trust in God and to give thanks for everything he had already done, the power of God was manifested through signs in their benefits, making them cross the Red Sea in safety.
The desert was difficult, nobody doubts it, but God provided water, food, opened a sea to save the people ... for all that, ingratitude is a sin that God does not want to consent.
It was not by chance that the patience (great) of God was exhausted before a people that was directed only by complaints and never by gratitude:
"None of the men who, having seen my glory and the miracles that I did in Egypt and in the desert but they put me to the test ten times and did not obey my voice, none of them will see the land that, with oath, I promised to his parents, yes, none of those who despised me will see it. "(Nm 14. 22-23)
The challenge that God gives us daily is: "In everything, give thanks, because this is the will of God in Christ Jesus for you (1 Thessalonians 5.18)
This does not mean to cover our eyes to the inclemencies of life, to be an alienated, to remain silent before everything, but it is to look at everything that happens and to recognize that there is a "one purpose". God is in control, it is not at the same time that He is called Sovereign. God is not being surprised by events. He cares for us, loves us, strengthens us.
That gratitude takes the place of unfounded claims is unjust, because ingratitude is one of the sins that God does not want to perceive in You.
So I ask you: have you already thanked today?
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