What are your pet peeves?
What’s your biggest pet peeve?
These questions all make me chuckle…..no joke….it makes me laugh!
Why? Well because in a nutshell this is what you are asking….
” what do you like to complain about?”
OR….BETTER YET…..
“What do you like to nag about?”
……or rant and rave about…..
Any everyone is willing to let you know what their pet peeves are, but call it what it is, and all of a sudden, everyone is saying oh but I was just sharing my opinion. Now there are no borders…..young, old, saved, unsaved, every person has a pet peeve AND EVERYONE WANTS YOU TO KNOW WHAT IT IS.
I hear it at church, I hear it at the store, I hear it from friends and Facebook is littered with them. So tell me how my believer friends are you different from my unsaved friend just below you on my newsfeed…these are what I see….
(Unsaved friend : ” OMG. I hate it when Facebook changes …it’s my biggest pet peeve EVER!”)
(saved friend : “OMGoodness,my biggest pet peeve is when FB Changes”)
Now what on earth is the difference? NOT MUCH!
Okay so next scenario….
A huge picture of some guy that is supposed to be a representation of Jesus holding out his arms (coincidently he looks more European, than from Isreal) saying click like if you love Jesus and want to be like him, and then the very next thing you write is a RANT…..what are you communicating to people?
Hypocrisy?
Lack of Joy?
Lack of love?
Lack of grace?
Lack of patience?
How about …lack of self control?
How about what you are saying Jesus is like?
Did your pet peeve help anybody grow in their walk with God?
Do we all complain? Absolutely, we are all human! But I challenge you to instead take those pet peeves to God, not post them to Facebook. Keep a journal to write your frustrations in, don’t just share them to any old soul who will listen.
We all have things that frustrate us or drive us crazy, but our testimonies are on the line when we constantly complain, nag, gripe, rant, rave,…or share your pet peeves.
Whatever you cal it, it goes directly against God’s word which tells us
Rejoice in The Lord ALWAYS and again I say rejoice
Philippians 4:4 Rejoice in the Lord always; again I will say, rejoice. ESV
And
In EVERYTHING give thaNks
1 Thessalonians 5:18 give thanks in all circumstances; for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus for you. ESV
So I in thinking much about this over the last few months realized I have but one true pet peeve, and that is PET PEEVES! lol how’s that for irony!
