Comments on: Stop complaining and feed the ox http://tomstuart.org/2010/04/26/stop-complaining-and-feed-the-ox/ Connecting the Dots of Life. Mon, 17 Jun 2013 17:43:20 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: tomlstuart http://tomstuart.org/2010/04/26/stop-complaining-and-feed-the-ox/comment-page-1/#comment-707 tomlstuart Mon, 26 Apr 2010 23:22:29 +0000 http://tomlstuart.wordpress.com/?p=293#comment-707 Good point Candace. I lilke the idea of love being the antidote and deterrant to complaining. It changes the atmosphere in how we relate to trying circumstances and people.

]]> By: Candace M http://tomstuart.org/2010/04/26/stop-complaining-and-feed-the-ox/comment-page-1/#comment-706 Candace M Mon, 26 Apr 2010 17:09:09 +0000 http://tomlstuart.wordpress.com/?p=293#comment-706 Then the LORD said to Moses, “Behold I will rain bread from heaven for you. And the people shall go out and gather a certain quota every day, that I may test them, whether they will walk in My law or not. Exd. 16:4 (NKJV)

The heart of the law is love. The two great commandments given us by our Lord in the New Testament were to love the LORD your God with all your heart, with all your soul and with all your mind; and to love your neighbor as yourself. (Matt. 22:37-39)

To complain is murmuring against what God himself has provided for us, since all things come from Him. To do so, means that we are not walking in love, for ingratitude is anything but loving. The oxen in our lives are indeed those favors of abundance that the LORD has bestowed on us. The wise remember this and so pass the test by gathering to themselves joy and love through gratitude. But they escape the fruitless gathering of the sorrow and agitation born of complaining.

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