"Gongusmon"

Philippians 2:14-16 says

14 Do everything without grumbling or arguing, 15 so that you may become blameless and pure, “children of God without fault in a warped and crooked generation.”[a] Then you will shine among them like stars in the sky 16 as you hold firmly to the word of life. And then I will be able to boast on the day of Christ that I did not run or labor in vain.

The word used is gongusmon which means whining and complaining. My devotion said it is kind of funny how this word is pronounced and sounds like "gone goose mon" What a weird word. But yet so profound...God says do EVERYTHING. Not the things we like, not when we feel joyful and are in good moods, but EVERYTHING without grumbling or arguing. Sometimes, no a lot of times, this is extremely hard! WE think we deserve to be treated better. We think we deserve more respect. We are on situations daily where we think we have been wrong including work, home, with friends, church, and everywhere else we are. But we don't. If we truly got what we deserve, it would be much worse than what we go through daily. So today..my focus...do EVERYTHING without using grumbling for fear of being classified as a 'gongusmonite'

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