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Scripture Reading: Psalm 100
Enter his gates with thanksgiving and his courts with praise.
Psalm 100:4
Listen, and you will hear the sound of a thousand grumbles. Children grumble about parents. Parents grumble about children. Grandparents grumble about both. Teachers grumble about students. Students grumble about teachers. Principals grumble about both.
Grumbling is a favorite pastime of humanity, and Jesus–followers are not exempt. Few vices are treated more kindly. God’s people may not get drunk, or cheat, or commit adultery, but, oh, can they grumble! God rescued his people from slavery in Egypt and gave them food and water in the desert, and what did they do? They grumbled (Exodus 12–17). God’s people grumbled so regularly that the apostle Peter had to say, “Offer hospitality to one another without grumbling” (1 Peter 4:9). James added, “Don’t grumble against one another … or you will be judged” (James 5:9).
In our world of a thousand grumbles, the psalms call us to a different way. Just as the psalms teach us about faith in times of fear (Psalm 46), darkness (Psalm 88), and anger (Psalm 137), so they also teach us to live every day as a gift by praying thanks.
Though the world gives us much to grumble about, the psalmist teaches, “It is he who made us, and we are his.” We belong to God. He saves and adopts us. As his children, we can rise above grumbling, as Jesus did.
Prayer
Father, for your creation, for your saving work in Jesus, for adopting us into your family, we give you thanks. Help us to avoid grumbling and be more like Jesus. Amen
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In all things and at all times, let us never cease to thank and praise our most High God. In our moments of grumbling,let us count our blessings and name them one by one and it will definitely surprise us what God has already done. Always be thankful to him;To me,it is another way of rendering our supplications unto God.
Forgive me Lord… I’m so prone to grumbling… Lord help me to be joyful and thanksful.
Lord,we have so much to be thankful for,Please let us not waste time grumbling.
For the past week I haven’t had any real cash to go and buy food for my home; I have 2 boys to feed.
I has been hard on me to find work and my cleaning business is not making much. I haven’t worked in
one week and food is very low here almost down to nothing. I know my trust in God will lead me toward the right direction to earn more money to buy more food or even food that can help prepare the
food I have left in the house. I don’t know how to stop my boys from grumbling, yet these scriptures have helped me. I told my sons about how the children of Isreal complained about food all the time yet
never gave God thanks for anything. So now even for him I give God thanks for what little we have and I thank God in advance for what great things and food He will supply us with in the future. In Jesus Name.
Thank You Lord because we don’t belong to the devil anymore. Help us, please not to grumble but to enjoy our salvation and all our blessings every day. What a relief is to know You take care of us no matter the circumstances. In Jesus’ name.