In the last podcast, you shared with us from Philippians chapter 2 and the effect of murmuring

on our mission in the world and what our complaining says about God.

There's more to it from Matthew chapter 5, continue explaining this for us, explain

to us this connection between salt, light and complaining.

Well, I will probably say something about way of explanation, but really what I feel is

that the Lord wasn't done with me on the Lord's day when he showed me Philippians chapter

2, verse 14, do all things without complaining and reasonings, and the reason it convicted

me so much at that time was because it went on to say, you live in a midst of a crooked

and perverse generation and you shine as lights.

And the light is doing all things without complaining.

Even the kind of person who's not a grumbler and a murmur and a complainer and a self-justifying

arguer with people, why you have every right to complain.

And so he showed me all that, he broke me because of my bent to complaining and then he

wasn't done with me and he took me to Matthew 5, blessed are you and others revile you

and persecute you and utter all kinds of evil against you falsely.

Now that's where you start complaining, right?

If somebody, like if my wife has something that wasn't true, I'm frustrated, I'm angry,

I'm irritated and then I start to reason in my mind how I should talk about this and

just everything starts to churn inside of me in terms of self-defense and outcomes,

complaining.

And if I don't deal with it, it just can go on and on.

So that's what happens, whether it's at home or at work or on a blog or somewhere you

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