Don't grumble

Last Sunday sermon with topic 'do not grumble 不要诉苦' in the service, has served a great reminder to me. Most of the time, we like to complain this and that then start grumbling on small little stuff even it is a blessing eg boss given us a good project or opportunity to learn and grow but we grumble about the workload; or we grumble about children are too high commitment while not all the people is having heathy and active children like us..

Pastor preached about we shouldn't grumble in this 5 aspects.
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不要诉苦

路得1:20-21
1:20 拿俄米对他们说：“不要叫我拿俄米（“拿俄米”就是“甜”的意思），要叫我玛拉（“玛拉”就是“苦”的意思），因为全能者使我受了大苦。
"Don't call me Naomi," she told them. "Call me Mara, because the Almighty has made my life very bitter.
1:21 我满满地出去，耶和华使我空空地回来。耶和华降祸与我，全能者使我受苦。既是这样，你们为何还叫我拿俄米呢？”
I went away full, but the LORD has brought me back empty. Why call me Naomi? The LORD has afflicted me; the Almighty has brought misfortune upon me."

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1.
大家一起受的苦，我们就要接受
We shall accept the hardship if all are experiencing the same

罗马8:22
我们知道一切受造之物一同叹息、劳苦，直到如今。
We know that the whole creation has been groaning as in the pains of childbirth right up to the present time.

2.
犯罪-要悔改
好心没好报-神喜悦的
We shall repent if we have done the wrong thing, rather than complaining about the beating and punishment. But if we get some suffering because of us doing good, then we shall not complain about it, as this is please in God's eyes. The reward would be coming from the highest.

彼得前书2:20
你们若因犯罪受责打，能忍耐，有什么可夸的呢？但你们若因行善受苦，能忍耐，这在 神看是可喜爱的。
But how is it to your credit if you receive a beating for doing wrong and endure it? But if you suffer for doing good and you endure it, this is commendable before God.

3.
有些苦对我们有益的
去婚礼好过去丧礼，我们会学习更多, 因为我们在欢乐里面，往往得到不多，苦难让我们学习到生命的更深沉。与其埋怨，不如改变自己

Sometime hardship brings benefits. For us complaining on the situation, we shall change ourselves and receive the good deeds from the hardship. Most of the time, we learn in hard situation. Happy moments are means to be only on surface of happening. We do not learn much lesson from the surface of happening.

诗篇119:71
我受苦是与我有益，为要使我学习你的律例。
It was good for me to be afflicted so that I might learn your decrees.

4.
受苦往往是转机的开始
走投无路时做的决定
结局是美满的
受苦是有价值的

There is always the turning point for our hardship and suffering situation. The outcome is fruitful although we don't see the harvest at the beginning stage. There is value behind all the hardship.

"Fear not that your life shall come to an end, but rather that it shall never have a beginning"
- John Henry Newman

The victorious Christian life is a series of new beginnings
- Alex. white

"Though no one can go back and make a brand new start, anyone can start from now and make a brand new ending"

路2:3-4
路得就去了，来到田间，在收割的人身后拾取麦穗。她恰巧到了以利米勒本族的人波阿斯那块田里。
So she went out and began to glean in the fields behind the harvesters. As it turned out, she found herself working in a field belonging to Boaz, who was from the clan of Elimelech.
波阿斯正从伯利恒来，对收割的人说：“愿耶和华与你们同在！”他们回答说：“愿耶和华赐福与你！”
Just then Boaz arrived from Bethlehem and greeted the harvesters, "The LORD be with you!" "The LORD bless you!" they called back.

5.
为主而受的苦
与基督一同分担，很快乐

4:12 亲爱的弟兄啊，有火炼的试验临到你们，不要以为奇怪（似乎是遭遇非常的事），倒要欢喜，因为你们是与基督一同受苦，使你们在他荣耀显现的时候，也可以欢喜快乐。
Dear friends, do not be surprised at the painful trial you are suffering, as though something strange were happening to you.
But rejoice that you participate in the sufferings of Christ, so that you may be overjoyed when his glory is revealed.

歌罗西书1:24
现在我为你们受苦，倒觉欢乐，并且为基督的身体，就是为教会，要在我肉身上补满基督患难的缺欠。
Now I rejoice in what was suffered for you, and I fill up in my flesh what is still lacking in regard to Christ's afflictions, for the sake of his body, which is the church.
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By looking at this 5 points, we have no reason grumbling on our frustration and suffering. When we are less complaining, we shall see the beauty and positive side of things.

数算主恩
不是受苦
As a conclusion, we shall celebrate 2015, counting the blessing of God and do not grumble for all the learning points and suffering that received :)