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Day 12 – Complaint Job 10 How often do you complain about anything in your life? My guess is a lot. I don’t think we can go through a day without complaining about something. Job complained as well, only he turned his complaint on himself. He didn’t blame anyone else for the problems he faced. So often when we hear someone complaining, they are putting the blame on someone or something else, instead of where it belonged, on themselves. If you have been in customer service you hear it all the time. Your customer refuses to take the blame for the problem with the product when you know your customer is at fault, but you cannot prove it so you accept your customer isn’t at fault and give credit for the product. Job reminded God he was nothing more than clay, the work of his hands. Yet Job did not charge God with wrong doing, just that he would remember him and take care of him. We all want God to take care of us, and not forget us in the misery we are going through. As Christians we are told to examine our lives to see if there is any fault we need to confess. Yet how often do we overlook our faults and feel we are guiltless of any wrong doing? It is easy to point fingers at someone else and bring up their shortcomings, but we fail to look at our own. Jesus told us we are not to worry about the speck in someone else’s eyes, when we have a plank in our own. Matthew 7:3 And why behold thou the mote that is in thy brother’s eye, but consider not the beam that is in thine own eye? 4 Or how wilt thou say to thy brother, Let me pull out the mote out of thine eye; and, behold, a beam is in thine own eye? 5 Thou hypocrite, first cast out the beam out of thine own eye; and then shalt thou see clearly to cast out the mote out of thy brother’s eye. Job was taking care of the speck in his eye by not blaming God for the trouble he was in. It’s time we did the same. Stop blaming someone and something else for all your troubles. Look at yourself, and ask God to help you make it right, reminding him you are no more than dust, and he created you. When you take ownership of your problems, you will find your complaints will cease. Let’s pray: Father, help me take ownership of those things I am responsible for and not blame someone else for my trouble. In Jesus’ name, I pray, amen. Copyright © 1 March 2016 by Valerie Jean Routhieaux All scripture is King James Version, edited by me into common English. Image courtesy of Pixabay