WARNING: I am in a religious, philosophical and mystical mood.
I am a carping, whining, complaining, fault-finding, nit-picking, grousing sort of person. (in short, mareklamo).
Everyday, I always find something to grouch about. In fact, this blog is littered with moans, and groans and all sorts of expressions of dissatisfaction.
I always have fun poking around in my brain talking about how unfair the world is and how difficult life is and how miserable people make me and how others bully me around and how I am being used.
I am a grouch, an honest to goodness evil little twerp who messes with her brain about how the world conspires to make life one hellish journey.
I always mutter about my fate, my lot in life and my miserable existence. And I like making myself cry at night… (yeah) about how ugly and fat I am and about how I never had any boyfriend (haha, daw laon), and how I have never tasted what a kiss feels like (can’t even imagine it) and how stupid I would feel in the morning because of doing so.
Anyway, when I listened to DYBS around lunchtime today, I learned that I am not supposed to feel like it. That I should not grouch.
It is unseemly for a Christian to grouch. According to the pastor, If is not worst than what Jesus suffered on the cross, hindi iyun dapat sabihing mahirap. Nakakahiya.
He even mentioned about not being recognized for hard work and feeling bad about it. He said that Jesus himself was crucified by the very people He fed, one time, and He even asked forgiveness for them.
He said that if we follow Jesus’s example, tataas ang ating threshold of pain. We would no longer be the pitiful, whining little mortals. Instead, papasalamatan natin ang lakas na ibinigay niya para makayanan ang mga pagsubok. (My Filipino is a little bit rusty).
Whinings, bickerings, complaining only makes us weak. It dispirits those around us. Nawawalan sila ng drive to continue. It only makes others feel bad so we should not indulge in this selfish thing.
One of Jesus’ ministry is to give Himself and to serve others. And if we want to follow Him, this should also be our goal.
The pastor also mentioned two problems that make this difficult:
Selfishness
Doubt
So we should always ask God not to give us faith (the fact that we are praying to Him shows we have faith). We should ask Him to increase our faith.
And remember:
Everything is possible for him who believes.
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