There's a prayer that goes something like...this is the day our Lord has made, let's be glad and rejoice in it. Maybe it's in a song.
What a statement of truth though - this is the day the Lord, our God, our Savior, has made. If you are anything like me, you pray for God's will to be done in your life and then go about trying to make IT happen. Yes, we're to do our part, I'm to work as to the Lord, but, when things are tough, or their's conflict, something goes wrong, I/you start to complain. Errrrrr....why did that have to happen? Or, why did SHE have to say that, did you hear about what HE did.....? We even use disguises of prayer to complain and gossip.
What is God's attitude towards grumbling, whining, and complaining? Proverbs is full of wisdom and none is more powerfull than a direct note about what God HATES - 6:16,19 There are six things that the Lord hates, seven that are an abomination to him.....and someone who complains and spreads discord amoung others.
How does it affect us when we acknowledge that God makes the day and then we complain to others, believers and non-believers alike, about the makings and happenings of the day? What does that do to our testimony? What happens to what we hear ourselves say?
(Side note.........of course, as Skip Heitzig points out in reference to Numbers 14, sometimes it is through our complaining that the God's glory shows up the most.)
Seriously, what do you say when you talk to yourself? You hear yourself pray, but then you hear yourself grumble, what does that do to what you really believe?
There's a host of other verses that come to mind about the tongue, the heart, and what proceeds from the mouth. Let's be mindfull of the fact that God made this day and not complain. This day isn't anything like what it will be like in Heaven, but He made it, let's be glad that He's giving us the struggles, that we are to test everything, grab what's good, and flee from evil. The challenge/conflict/struggle you are having is probably very very similiar to one you've had in the past; He brought you through that, He'll bring you through this one. Just remember and learn from the last time, don't waste that previous struggle by ignoring it ever happened and totally shutting it out.
God is good, all the time.
To that end......
