Complainer or Comforter?
Jude 16- “These are grumblers, complainers, walking according to their own lusts; and they
mouth great swelling words, flattering people to gain advantage.”
People in our world are just like this. They like to complain and seek their own gain. These
people do not help the society nor are they enjoyable to be around. Many today have
decided that nothing is good enough. Instead of making lemonade they make limes with
the lemons that life throws them. I ask the question why anyone would want to live this
way. Is it a conscious decision or does it just happen? Is it the way we were raised or
situations in our lives that cause us to be this way?
1 Corinthians 10:10- “nor complain, as some of them also complained and were destroyed
by the destroyer.”
Paul not only warned against complaining but told the Corinthians about the Old Testament
examples being destroyed. Is it possible the complainers have a miserable life and then
are destroyed on the Judgment day? It would be hard to see how God could be living in
someone who is never happy and always complains about something.
Instead of being complainers we should be comforters. Some people try to be both at the
same time. One example is that of Job’s friends who tried to comfort Job through the trials
that he faced but Job told them they were miserable comforters, Job 16:2. They were not
much help to Job because they did not understand fully the situation that Job was in at the
time.
Consider the following passages about the comforting God and the comforting people we
should be as HIS children:
2 Corinthians 1:3 and 4- “Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the
Father of mercies and God of all comfort, who comforts us in all our tribulation, that we may
be able to comfort those who are in any trouble, with the comfort with which we ourselves
are comforted by God.”
Romans 15:4- “For whatever things were written before were written for our learning, that
we through the patience and comfort of the Scriptures might have hope.”
1 Thessalonians 4:18- “Comfort one another with these words.”
1 Thessalonians 5:11- “Therefore comfort each other and edify one another, just as you
also are doing.”
We serve the God and Father of all comfort who gives us through HIS grace the
opportunity to comfort one another. We have God’s word that we can find comfort and
peace in when we read and study. We have one another to help each and comfort each
other with the comfort of God and HIS word.
May God Help Us to be Comforters Every Week!
Rodney Livingston
Jude 16- “These are grumblers, complainers, walking according to their own lusts; and they
mouth great swelling words, flattering people to gain advantage.”
People in our world are just like this. They like to complain and seek their own gain. These
people do not help the society nor are they enjoyable to be around. Many today have
decided that nothing is good enough. Instead of making lemonade they make limes with
the lemons that life throws them. I ask the question why anyone would want to live this
way. Is it a conscious decision or does it just happen? Is it the way we were raised or
situations in our lives that cause us to be this way?
1 Corinthians 10:10- “nor complain, as some of them also complained and were destroyed
by the destroyer.”
Paul not only warned against complaining but told the Corinthians about the Old Testament
examples being destroyed. Is it possible the complainers have a miserable life and then
are destroyed on the Judgment day? It would be hard to see how God could be living in
someone who is never happy and always complains about something.
Instead of being complainers we should be comforters. Some people try to be both at the
same time. One example is that of Job’s friends who tried to comfort Job through the trials
that he faced but Job told them they were miserable comforters, Job 16:2. They were not
much help to Job because they did not understand fully the situation that Job was in at the
time.
Consider the following passages about the comforting God and the comforting people we
should be as HIS children:
2 Corinthians 1:3 and 4- “Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the
Father of mercies and God of all comfort, who comforts us in all our tribulation, that we may
be able to comfort those who are in any trouble, with the comfort with which we ourselves
are comforted by God.”
Romans 15:4- “For whatever things were written before were written for our learning, that
we through the patience and comfort of the Scriptures might have hope.”
1 Thessalonians 4:18- “Comfort one another with these words.”
1 Thessalonians 5:11- “Therefore comfort each other and edify one another, just as you
also are doing.”
We serve the God and Father of all comfort who gives us through HIS grace the
opportunity to comfort one another. We have God’s word that we can find comfort and
peace in when we read and study. We have one another to help each and comfort each
other with the comfort of God and HIS word.
May God Help Us to be Comforters Every Week!
Rodney Livingston
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