God, you always get me!

Okay so you all know how stubborn I am by now and its so funny how God knows exactly how to show me that I'm wrong. Lately, my life has been extremely stressful and it's been so easy for me to just complain about every little thing that goes wrong during my day. At first, I just thought that it was a good thing to vent and let it all out, but now I've realized that I'm just making my life seem worse when I'm truly blessed.

1Thessalonians 5:18 says, "Be thankful in all circumstances, for this is God’s will for you who belong to Christ Jesus." I have so much to be thankful for why should I complain about such temporary things? 2 Corinthians 4:19 says, "So we don’t look at the troubles we can see now; rather, we fix our gaze on things that cannot be seen. For the things we see now will soon be gone, but the things we cannot see will last forever." This verse just reminds me of how little these things matter in the big picture.

I've never really looked at complaining as sin before, but now I know its one of the unconfessed sins in my life which God had to bring to my attention the hard way. I called my mom after I had a lot of mishaps during one day and instead of saying, "poor emily" she said to me that I should stop and count my blessings. I was furious. How could she say something like that when everything was going wrong? Later on in the evening after bible study, I was complaining once again and two of my good friends both pointed out the fact that my complaining was only making things worse. It took three people and one terrible day for God to finally convince me that I'm sooo stupid for complaining when I'm sooo blessed.

He has showed me that He blesses me with enough. In  2Corinthians 12:9 Paul says, 'But he said to me, “My grace is all you need. My power works best in weakness." So now I am glad to boast about my weaknesses, so that the power of Christ can work through me.' It's amazing to know that its only by God's grace that he works through us because we are weak and we need Him. So we know its truly Jesus' power that rests on us when we are weak and instead of complaining we should embrace his infinite power!