The Bible reveals that complaining is dangerous for at least four reasons:

1. Complaining cuts off our vision for the future.
Jesus did not murmur and complain on the cross, because His eyes fixed on the outcome…” for the joy set before Him, He endured the cross and despised the shame.” We don’t complain in the wilderness if our eyes are on the promised land! Our problem is that Satan tells us that there is no way out of the wilderness. Satan tells us “You will die in the wilderness, there’s no way out.” God says, “Follow me. I have a promised land for you!” And we get to choose who we’re going to agree with! When we complain we are agreeing with the devil that our future is cut off.

2. Complaining is dangerous because it causes us to doubt God’s goodness for the present.
When we complain we are saying, “God, we don’t like the route You have mapped for our life.” Romans 8:28 teaches that God has a route planned for our life. All of the things on that route—even those that are not fun—are designed by God to work together for our good. When we complain, we are saying, God, we don’t like this route. We don’t think You’ve done a good job.” Murmuring and complaining is an accusation against God that His plan for us is not a good plan.

3. Complaining causes unbelief to deepen and grow.
The truth is that, “Unbelief is like a seed, if we water it, it will grow.” Every time we complain we are watering our unbelief.
What happens when we are underwater and we open our mouth real wide? Water comes in. In the same way, when we open our mouth to complain, unbelief floods in. If we are having a hard time walking in faith and we open our mouth to complain, we have just lost the battle. When we open our mouth to complain, we open ourself to be flooded by unbelief. Sometimes the best thing we can do to stay in faith is just to shut our mouth.

4. Murmuring and complaining invites greater adversity.
Some of us have gotten in a cycle that gets worse and worse. We’re in adversity and we complain, and the result is more adversity. To murmur and complain is to put ourself under a curse. Let me prove this to you from the Scriptures. What was Israel’s complaint in the wilderness? They said, “We are going to die in the wilderness!” That was not God’s promise. God had promised to get them to the promise land. But over and over they said, “you brought us out to die in the wilderness.”
What did God finally say to the Israelites? In Numbers 14:27-29, the Lord said, “I have heard the complaints that they are making. Say to them, Just as you have spoken so I will surely do to you. Your corpses surely shall fall in this wilderness.”

Erick Bouwmeester
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