The Profession of Whining

We have become a world of whiners. We have allowed ourselves to be moved into being negative while running full speed ahead into meaningless activities and thoughts. We are so not grounded in what really matters and in the Blessings we continually experience. We focus only on what we don’t have that we are sure will make us endlessly happy on the day we achieve or receive. What to do? What to do?
Take a week and make a little tick mark on a small tablet or your calendar every time you think or say something negative to anyone about anything. Make that mark if the situation deserves your negative thoughts. Make that mark if the situation is merely an attitude for your day. At the end of seven days, tally that list of tick marks. I’m betting you will be shocked at how negative you have become. It’s not that we are all depressed, but we have just let ourselves become so terribly ungrateful.
As a Christian, you believe there will be a day when you will come before God for judgement. Have you considered that at that very moment He will be measuring your thoughts against His will/plan for your life? If you are living your life according to His plan, do you think it is ungrateful to complain _____(and insert the number of times you had negative thoughts during that seven days) number of times about your life?
As a supervisor, you know how it feels to try to provide the very best for each of your employees. You know what it takes to be their advocate, to plan, and to care. Have you ever met with an employee who totally disregards all you have done and spends her/his whole time complaining it’s not enough? It is disheartening to say the least. This is usually the employee who is not giving his/her all but still expects to reap bigger rewards than you have provided. Ungrateful whiners??? After providing so much for us, how must God feel when we spend time whining instead of doing His will?
You may think the amount of time you spend thinking and saying negative things does not take away from His plan for you. You would be wrong. Negative thoughts drag your entire state of mind down, it cuts productivity, it affects others, and it stifles innovation. Consider the measure of optimism God has planted in each of us from birth. Remember the child in you that skipped and laughed just to be outside on a beautiful day? God planted that attitude toward life. As we grow older, we let the optimism toward our life and the reward laid up in Heaven get stuck in the negative whining of today. Turn to Scripture for your boost of optimism.
I Timothy 4:6-16 "If thou put the brethren in remembrance of these things, thou shalt be a good minister of Jesus Christ, nourished up in the words of faith and of good doctrine, whereunto thou hast attained. But refuse profane and old wives’ fables, and exercise thyself rather unto godliness. For bodily exercise profiteth little: but godliness is profitable unto all things, having promise of the life that now is, and of that which is to come. This is a faithful saying and worthy of all acceptation. For therefore we both labor and suffer reproach, because we trust in the living God, who is the Savior of all men, specially of those that believe. These things command and teach. Let no man despise thy youth; but be thou an example of the believers, in word, in conversation, in charity, in spirit, in faith, in purity. Till I come, give attendance to reading, to exhortation, to doctrine. Neglect not the gift that is in thee which was given thee by prophecy, with the laying on of the hands of the presbytery. Meditate upon these things; give thyself wholly to them; that thy profiting may appear to all. Take heed unto thyself, and unto the doctrine; continue to them: for in doing this thou shalt both save thyself and them that hear thee."
Does this Scripture at any place even hint that whining is acceptable to God? As all great coaches tell their players, "Keep your eye on the goal!"