SIN OF MURMURING, COMPLAINING

Sir,

“So all the congregation lifted up their voices and cried, and the people wept that night. And all the children of Israel complained against Moses and Aaron, and the whole congregation said to them, ‘If only we had died in the land of Egypt! Or if only we had died in this wilderness!

Why has the Lord brought us to this land to fall by the sword, that our wives and children should become victims? Would it not be better for us to return to Egypt’?” (Numbers 14:1-3).

In the above text the Israelites murmured against their gracious and loving God. Needless to say, their murmurings displeased Him. “When the people complained, it displeased the Lord; and the Lord heard it; and his anger was kindled; and the fire of the Lord burnt among them, and consumed them that were in the uttermost parts of the camp,” Numbers 11:1.

Sadly, many Christians like to murmur and complain yet our God is disgusted with complainers. At home, work and in church they grumble, murmur and complain. They can see nothing good. To them, everything is bad - their life is miserable and they want to make it that way for everyone else.
Murmuring, complaining and griping are global pastimes. It’s so common and pervasive that many aren’t aware they are complaining.

They complain when it’s hot; they complain when it’s cold, even when it rains they still complain. God commands against the spirit of murmuring and complaining, He hates the contagious complaining spirit. An unregenerate man will murmur, complain and gripe because of the unregenerate spirit that dwells in him. Regardless of how much he has, he will always find reason to gripe and complain. Do you know that 150 years ago, the world’s greatest kings could have only dreamt of living the life some of us are living today.

In only one day, and on beautifully smooth highways, we travel the distance it would have taken long-ago kings two weeks and many bumps to accomplish. While comfortably travelling along, we flip a switch and are serenaded by the world’s greatest musicians - and not just any musicians, but musicians of preference. News and weather are delivered on the hour, and we are kept abreast of global events by some of the world’s greatest minds. We eat the finest foods and pick our pleasure from the shelf or case, and prepare it in minutes.

We wear the finest clothing of silk, cotton and wool, and live in finely furnished homes with electricity, running hot and cold water, and heat. We’re protected by the world’s greatest military and entertained by the finest athletes, yet there is complaining in the streets. The kings of old would have paid the proverbial ‘king’s ransom’ to have enjoyed all that.

Complaining, murmuring and negative speaking are all done in the devil’s language and this conversation is harmful to those who speak it and hear it. Complaining, murmuring and negative speaking create despair. As believers, we are directed to separate ourselves from the complaining spirit.
Those of us who have put on the mind of Christ are commanded to give thanks in everything, regardless of what that everything is. In everything give thanks: for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus concerning you (I Thess 5:18).

Bopoto Gwinyai

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