Be Thankful, Don’t Complain!

“Be thankful, don’t complain,” the Holy Spirit spoke to my heart. I had just woken up, had not gotten a great night’s sleep, and still groggy had begun to think about a situation in which a loved one was hurting me once again. Ouch. Big ouch.

As many times as the Lord over the years has reminded me to NOT think about certain things, to take those thoughts captive (2 Cor. 10:5), and to think about the things He tells us in the Bible to think about, I was definitely on the wrong path. The Lord was...