{"id":2303,"date":"2011-12-13T10:35:37","date_gmt":"2011-12-13T18:35:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/?p=2303"},"modified":"2011-12-13T10:35:37","modified_gmt":"2011-12-13T18:35:37","slug":"is-that-you-you-hear-grumbling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/2011\/is-that-you-you-hear-grumbling\/","title":{"rendered":"Is That You You Hear Grumbling?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Grumbling is a bunch of ungratefulness wrapped in selfishness and bound tightly with cables of negativity.<\/p>\n

It doesn’t look pretty as a gift.<\/p>\n

And the content is disgusting.<\/p>\n

A grumbler has a sense of entitlement to something better.<\/p>\n

Maybe rightly so. More likely, not. <\/p>\n

Here’s some of what triggered that (and this post):<\/p>\n

A lot of harmless grumbling goes on; it\u2019s the soundtrack of our lives.<\/p>\n

You hear it in the supermarket line and on the radio. And if you listen closely you may hear it coming out of your own mouth. It is thought to be harmless, and I suppose it won\u2019t keep you out of heaven, but it will stunt your growth (Philippians 2:13-14) and lessen your reward (1 Corinthians 3:13-16).<\/p>\n

But today I had a sudden epiphany. I heard myself. I noticed how different my speech sounded from the way Daniel talked:<\/p>\n

“…there is a God in heaven who reveals mysteries” (Daniel 2:28).<\/p>\n

Or his friends:<\/p>\n

[…]<\/p>\n

You and I have a choice to make every time we open our mouths, and it is radical. We can go around sounding like Daniel\u2019s friends or we can go around sounding like Naomi did here.<\/p>\n

[…]<\/p>\n

Ready. Set. Go: Let\u2019s talk unquenchable optimism in Christ.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The full piece by Andr\u00e9e Seu and WorldMagBlog: Who would you rather sound like?<\/a><\/p>\n

One of the Biblically-forecast traits of the end times is unthankfulness.<\/p>\n

Grumbling.<\/p>\n

“This know also, that in the last days perilous times shall come.<\/p>\n

“For men shall be lovers of their own selves, covetous, boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy” (2 Timothy 3:1,2).<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Grumbling is a bunch of ungratefulness wrapped in selfishness and bound tightly with cables of negativity. It doesn’t look pretty as a gift. And the content is disgusting. A grumbler has a sense of entitlement to something better. Maybe rightly so. More likely, not.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4,16,12,534,20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2303","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-christianity-101","category-days-of-noah","category-lessons-for-living","category-todays-thought","category-youve-been-warned"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/prJUJ-B9","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2303","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2303"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2303\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2303"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2303"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2303"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}