Submit, Do Not Grumble

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Unfortunately, even among Christians there are those who are chronic grumblers. A woman of this type grumbled at everything and everybody. But at last the preacher thought he had found something about which she could make no complaint—the lady’s crop of potatoes was certainly the finest for miles around. “Ah, for once you must be pleased,” he said with a beaming smile as he met her in the village street. “Everyone is saying how splendid your potatoes are this year.” The lady glared at him as she answered, “They’re not so poor. But where’s the bad ones for the pigs?” If the mouth is given to grumbling, then the heart is lacking in submissiveness to God.

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