What does nagging reveal about a person’s character? - Nagging - TouchPoints

Exodus 14:11They [the Israelites] said to Moses, “Why did you bring us out here to die in the wilderness? Weren’t there enough graves for us in Egypt? What have you done to us? Why did you make us leave Egypt?”

Exodus 17:2-3So once more the people complained against Moses. “Give us water to drink!” they demanded. “Quiet!” Moses replied. “Why are you complaining against me? And why are you testing the Lord?” But tormented by thirst, they continued to argue with Moses. “Why did you bring us out of Egypt? Are you trying to kill us, our children, and our livestock with thirst?”

Numbers 11:1, 4, 13, 20Soon the people began to complain about their hardship, and the Lord heard everything they said. Then the Lord’s anger blazed against them, and he sent a fire to rage among them, and he destroyed some of the people in the outskirts of the camp. . . . Then the foreign rabble who were traveling with the Israelites began to crave the good things of Egypt. And the people of Israel also began to complain. “Oh, for some meat!” they exclaimed. . . . “Where am I [Moses] supposed to get meat for all these people? They keep whining to me, saying, ‘Give us meat to eat!’” . . . “You will eat it for a whole month until you gag and are sick of it. For you have rejected the Lord, who is here among you, and you have whined to him, saying, “Why did we ever leave Egypt?”’”

Numbers 14:29“You will all drop dead in this wilderness! Because you complained against me, every one of you who is twenty years old or older and was included in the registration will die.”

Numbers 21:5They [the Israelites] began to speak against God and Moses. “Why have you brought us out of Egypt to die here in the wilderness?” they complained. “There is nothing to eat here and nothing to drink. And we hate this horrible manna!”

Deuteronomy 1:27“You complained in your tents and said, ‘The Lord must hate us. That’s why he has brought us here from Egypt—to hand us over to the Amorites to be slaughtered.’”

Deuteronomy 6:16“You must not test the Lord your God as you did when you complained at Massah.”

Nagging cam reveal a lack of trust and a lack of gratitude. Israel had been brutally enslaved in Egypt, but here they were complaining that they had ever left. God had miraculously protected Israel from the armies of Egypt, but here, Israel was complaining and predicting that they all would die fighting the Amorites. God provided manna to feed his people daily, but Israel complained about the menu and nagged Moses (and God) for meat. This behavior angered both Moses and God.

Judges 14:15-17On the fourth day they said to Samson’s wife, “Entice your husband to explain the riddle for us, or we will burn down your father’s house with you in it. Did you invite us to this party just to make us poor?” So Samson’s wife came to him in tears and said, “You don’t love me; you hate me! You have given my people a riddle, but you haven’t told me the answer.” “I haven’t even given the answer to my father or mother,” he replied. “Why should I tell you?” So she cried whenever she was with him and kept it up for the rest of the celebration. At last, on the seventh day he told her the answer because she was tormenting him with her nagging. Then she explained the riddle to the young men.

Judges 16:16She tormented him with her nagging day after day until he was sick to death of it.

Nagging is often evidence of our own selfishness. To get what we want, we keep on wearing the other person down.