The other thing the wimp loves to do is to get amongst other complainers. Together, complaining is even more satisfying because there are more things to complain about.  It can seem very spiritual but it is actually destructive because it involves running other people down whom God ultimately wants to bless.

Complaining can destroy every good thing – marriage, family, the work place, churches and the government. The continual, unrelenting, destructive force of complaining contaminates every institution in the nation. Much of the divorce problem we face today could be resolved if we could only get rid of the complaining spirit.

When the wimp faces a problem, he complains about it. As he complains he becomes part of the problem, which increases the problem. The more people he can influence to complain, the bigger the problem becomes.

When the real man is confronted with a problem, he seeks God for wisdom as to how to overcome the problem. The real man knows the destructive force of complaining and will resist the temptation to enter into its tantalizing grip. He looks for a positive answer to the problem.

Complaining can never bring about a righteous change. It may bring about change – there will be another marriage, another church, another job, another government – but you can never satisfy the complaining spirit. It is a lust that is ever looking for another opportunity to express itself.

The Bible speaks of the ten temptations in the wilderness. Numbers 14:22-23 says, “Because all these men who have seen my glory and the signs which I did in Egypt and in the wilderness, and have put me to the test now these ten times, and have not heeded my voice, they certainly shall not see the land of which I swore to their fathers, nor shall any of those who rejected me see it.” These ten temptations, which destroyed the Old Testament church of the wilderness, were largely brought about through complaining.

The Lord God has an extremely large and beautiful spiritual land for us to enter, but complaining murmuring, criticizing, griping, whining, winging and bellyaching will stop us right in our tracks from entering into it just as it did the children of Israel. Complaining provokes God to destroy us just as much today as it did the church of the wilderness.