When you are unhappy in life, it is good to turn to God. He wants to hear what you have to say, but at the same time take a good look at yourself to see what you contributed to the situation. Things in life are not always good, but do not turn your discontentment into blaming God. He did not make those events happen. He did allow them to happen, but only to serve a purpose. Look within and search to see if the Holy Spirit is trying to tell you why.
If God is in the center of your your mental closet, the closer you get to His light the more clearly you can see what is going on. If you insist digging in the dark spots, then it can lead to discontentment. Not everything happening in your life is about you. Sometime it is about other people or things happening around you.
Grumbling and complaining will not bring you closer to God. It reveals discontent for what He has done in your life so far. The more you focused that you are the more you will complain. As you become more God focused the more of the I statements you can clean out of your mental closet. You can break the habit of discontentment.
Discontentment stems from selfishness. You may tend to complain when life is hard, you lack variety, discontented with authority, needs, and disappointments. Life will never be perfect until you join God. You have to live in this world, but you don't have to live like the world. You can see reality and turn to God for solutions. You can thank Him for what He has done for you up to this point. You can push your selfishness away and embrace a better perspective: how can I follow Jesus today.
Use your imagination with honest thoughts to look at the life you want to see for yourself. Is it all about you? Or is it about serving, honoring, and bringing glory to God? It is your life, so you should have some aspect that make you happy, but it should not be all about your wants and desires. God needs to be in the dreams, goals, and plans.
Discontentment and complaining is unattractive. You will not get any good attention with it. All you will do is cause problems, division, and grow in your misery. It will make your world about you, but it will also become smaller and more restricting. If you are a Christian, then discontentment should never be comfortable to you.
Monitor the words that come out of your mouth today. Are they bring life or death into your life. Are the words revealing good or negative thought patterns? What do you want to hear? How can you change today to get to a better tomorrow? Feed your soul good, lovely, kind words that come from truth. You will be taking steps for a better tomorrow. In a week you could have a completely different perspective on certain problems.
Numbers 11:1-6, 14:1-4, 20:2-5, 21:4-5, Psalm 46:8-11, Philippians 2:3-18, & 1 Timothy 6:6-8
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