| “Be glad … rejoice in the Lord your God …” |
| —Joel 2:23 |
There are always lots of reasons to complain. My personal “plate of complaints” overflows with some genuine issues and a whole raft full of minor annoyances, which I instinctively blow up until they reach “drama queen” proportions.
It rained last night. Of course we need the rain, but I can still find a reason to complain about it. The temperature dropped from near 60 to the mid-30s. It is, after all, mid-autumn. We expect a temperature drop in the fall here along the shore of Lake Erie. Nevertheless, complain we will.
We would do well to shelve our complaining and turn to the wise words of the Prophet Joel, as found in Joel 2:23:
Be glad, people of Zion, rejoice in the Lord your God, for he has given you the autumn rains because he is faithful. He sends you abundant showers, both autumn and spring rains, as before.
Let’s try something different today. Let’s put aside our complaining and, instead, take time today to rejoice in the Lord. How about it? Are you on board?
Based on a blog originally posted on Monday, November 27, 2017
