Why Gripe?

Luke 17:5-10

5 And the apostles said to the Lord, “Increase our faith.”
6 So the Lord said, “If you have faith as a mustard seed, you can say to this mulberry tree, ‘Be pulled up by the roots and be planted in the sea,’ and it would obey you. 7 And which of you, having a servant plowing or tending sheep, will say to him when he has come in from the field, ‘Come at once and sit down to eat’? 8 But will he not rather say to him, ‘Prepare something for my supper, and gird yourself and serve me till I have eaten and drunk, and afterward you will eat and drink’? 9 Does he thank that servant because he did the things that were commanded him? I think not.[c] 10 So likewise you, when you have done all those things which you are commanded, say, ‘We are unprofitable servants. We have done what was our duty to do.’”

It is bad to gripe. Resentment never brings contentment. Jesus is above all earthly kings and masters. He is indefinitely has more worth. More so, as we think, our service to God is all the more deserving and expected even it is unpayable indefintely.

A sense of unworthiness. A sense of greatness of God. And a sense of expected thankfulness.

The journey before a heart can be an offering to God like Mary in John 12:3, "3Then Mary took about a pint[a] of pure nard, an expensive perfume; she poured it on Jesus' feet and wiped his feet with her hair. And the house was filled with the fragrance of the perfume." Judas seemingly righteous wanted the perfume be sold that it might be given to the poor but Christ said, "8You will always have the poor among you, but you will not always have me."

Devotion to Christ is righteousness. Devotion to God is proper. Devotion to God is honourable.

I hope through prayer that when we become a child of God, we will know that God is our all. Regardness how life turns out to be, we are really as Moses said of his firstborn Gershom meaning "I am alien in a strange land" when he was in Midian.

The entrappment of our desire for the things of the world is strong and pretentous and unless God weed it out of us, we will be unable to love Him. How foolish to think that temporal lasts with an eternal God, while eternity rejoices over our continual presence with God.

There is a new heaven and a new earth to come when all is destroyed and changed. There is a new life when we trust Christ. The old is gone.

Make me a stranger on earth dear Lord, till I see my heavenly home. A home that lasts.

What a Saviour!? I can only thank and not gripe for You have given your all already.

Must God do anymore to affirm His love? Grace is already given.