I Won't Complain

In times like these, it can be a challenge to remain thankful and optimistic. It seems like we're losing people that we love and cherish each week. Families are being tested like never before. More and more people are struggling to make ends meet. There is sickness and disease all around us. Hate is at an all time high while love continues to wax cold.

With so many dark clouds it can be difficult to see the glorious light of the Lord. We must shift our focus from the problem to the preserver. The one that keeps us and never stops to slumber nor sleep. When we do this, we realize that even in the midst of going through, we have absolutely nothing to complain about.

Just this year, someone has lost their loved one and never got a chance to sat goodbye. Someone lost their home. Another has lost their job. Someone cried last night because their spouse left them in the midst of a difficult period. Someone stayed awake all night contemplating taking their own life because life has seemingly gotten to hard and they feel that no one cares. Somebody is tired of fighting sickness. Somebody is tired of wondering, God where are you?

I want to challenge those that did not endure any of the above trials this week to take a moment to yourself just to tell God thank you. It could've been any of us. The fact that it's not is a Testament to the Lord's grace and not our goodness. Therefore, we choose to glorify him even when afflicted because we know that it could be worse.

We thank him even more for keeping us in those periods where trouble is on every hand. And we trust him to bring us out without a hair of our head singed and without the smell of smoke on us from the hell we've just come through.

I know it's hard, but don't complain. God has been too good for us to lose faith in him now. Trouble does not last always and remember that weeping may endure for a night, but joy cometh in the morning.

Bless the Lord, we made another week.