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<blockquote data-quote="OnlyByGrace" data-source="post: 1500783" data-attributes="member: 21966">About complainers, of which I regrettably am too often one, I cannot judge. I don&#039;t&nbsp; know another person&#039;s traumas. I don&#039;t know their generational lineage. I don&#039;t know how their DNA works. Only God knows any of that. If I were in their shoes, for all I know, I might complain even louder. I only know that God loves that person and desires their salvation.The Bible is full of admonitions against grumbling and complaining so we know that we ought not. Yet Job and David in the Psalms both complained mightily. And both were blessed by God. Even Jesus on the Cross, quoting David&#039;s complaint in Psalm 22:2, lamented, &quot;My God, my God, why have You forsaken me?&quot; So complaining occurs. And if Jesus did it, we know that it&#039;s not always sinful.I will do my best, through God&#039;s grace, to approach liife with confidence In the knowledge that God is sovereign over all things. Therefore, all that happens is either caused by God or allowed by God. Since God loves me and all people, I can relax, knowing that God is working all things out for my good and for the good of all people who love Him. I know that God has placed each person and event into my life for the benefit of my salvation. If something or someone irritates me, I look at it as God revealing to me another area in my life that I must surrender to Him. God wants me to hand over to Him all of my burdens and anxieties. How can I not be grateful to God for loving me like that?And when I fall short as I often do? I turn that over to Him too (again). I fall upon His mercy. I thank Him for loving me enough to humble Himself by taking the form of man so that He could die for my sins and make possible my salvation.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="OnlyByGrace, post: 1500783, member: 21966"] About complainers, of which I regrettably am too often one, I cannot judge. I don't know another person's traumas. I don't know their generational lineage. I don't know how their DNA works. Only God knows any of that. If I were in their shoes, for all I know, I might complain even louder. I only know that God loves that person and desires their salvation. The Bible is full of admonitions against grumbling and complaining so we know that we ought not. Yet Job and David in the Psalms both complained mightily. And both were blessed by God. Even Jesus on the Cross, quoting David's complaint in Psalm 22:2, lamented, "My God, my God, why have You forsaken me?" So complaining occurs. And if Jesus did it, we know that it's not always sinful. I will do my best, through God's grace, to approach liife with confidence In the knowledge that God is sovereign over all things. Therefore, all that happens is either caused by God or allowed by God. Since God loves me and all people, I can relax, knowing that God is working all things out for my good and for the good of all people who love Him. I know that God has placed each person and event into my life for the benefit of my salvation. If something or someone irritates me, I look at it as God revealing to me another area in my life that I must surrender to Him. God wants me to hand over to Him all of my burdens and anxieties. How can I not be grateful to God for loving me like that? And when I fall short as I often do? I turn that over to Him too (again). I fall upon His mercy. I thank Him for loving me enough to humble Himself by taking the form of man so that He could die for my sins and make possible my salvation. [/QUOTE]

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