Grumbling

Grumbling is often done by those who have the least reason to murmur. Spurgeon uses the following illustration in this matter:

"A heavy wagon was being dragged along a country lane by a team of oxen. The axle-tree groaned and creaked terribly, when the oxen turning around, thus addressed the wheels: 'Halloa, there! Why do you make so much noise? We bear all the labour, and we, not you, ought to cry out!' Those complain first in our churches who have least to do. The gift of grumbling is largely dispensed among those who have no other talents, or who keep what they have wrapped up in a napkin."