“It is if it’s going to be, it’s up to me.” – William H. Johnsen
In order to help me fulfill my aim to “never complain, never explain,” I use another saying, “It is if it’s going to be, it’s up to me.” For too often we would rather complain about what someone is not doing rather than just do it ourselves
Let me get personal for a moment. My wife is not big on cleaning the house. We both work full time, so I understand. Yet the chores are no split equally. I usually do most of the cleaning.
I am going to be honest, at first this bugged me. I should have given it to the Lord. But I didn’t. It made me upset. She doesn’t cook my meals or clean my house.
But finally, I realized that I was the only one I was hurting by me being upset. It was my peace I was forfeiting. And so I remembered an old slogan I heard from Dr. Robert Schuller, “If it’s going to be, it’s up to me.” I believe he got it from William H. Johnsen.
Now if something bothers me, I just do it. I soon discovered that God helps those who help themselves. It is better to just do it than to complain about it, even if it’s just complaining in your own thinking.