Lamentations 3:38-40
Is it not from the mouth of the Most High that both calamities and good things come? Why should the living complain when punished for their sins? Let us examine our ways and test them, and let us return to the LORD.
Oh, I really can't stand whining people or people who just live to complain. That is perhaps the key reason why I can detect a Singaporean a mile away when I'm overseas. Ok, so I'm exaggerating, but boy do we whine and complain a lot.
Nothing seems to satisfy us, and in today's young generation the whining is ever so present and in greater measure than I would be able to tolerate. Over the past few days, I've had a couple of encounters with stressed young adults who openly share their thoughts without recognising that its laced with complains and it really hits me like a blast of unexpected cold wind.
The fact that today's social media is propagating everyone to whine and lament online is not helping. Quite honestly, I don't need to know or am I interested to have the complains posted. Even if I attempt to skip past the posts, it's still a pain to have it out there because so much of the whining are pitiful attempts to be attention seeking or just deluded that they are victimised by what comes through in their life.
We all have choices to make in life. Often, what you encounter now is simply a result of something we have elected to do or a process that God wants us to go about. Even if things aren't a consequence of sin and life seems to hurl lemons at us, I only wish more will learn to take it and also to shut it up.
If you have an issue with life and you're whining about it, don't go about whining and complaining to the rest of the world. Who amongst us are living in a perfect world without issues? Learn to recognise that those who overcome it on their own often bring much glory to their maker.
Meanwhile, I'm seriously ignoring the self-pity-party whiners who are annoying me to death. Life doesn't suck, you just chose to look at it that way.
M.
