Today’s Text: Exodus 16:3
and the people of Israel said to them, “Would that we had died
by the hand of the Lord in the land of Egypt, when we sat by the meat pots and
ate bread to the full, for you have brought us out into this wilderness to kill
this whole assembly with hunger.”
Words of Devotion
God has done a lot of
crazy/awesome things for the Israelites. The 10 plagues have happened, God
parted the Red Sea, saved them from the Egyptians, and now they want to go back
because their tummies are hungry. Their hunger makes them forget what God had done.
They had gotten comfortable having food in their stomach even if it meant being
in slavery. We can read this and say we would never act like this toward
God if He showed us all of these miracles and rescued us. What
we must remember though, is that God has rescued us from sin and His wrath to
come.
Everything we have: our car, our family, our money, and our
house are from Him also. So, what is the comfort in your life
that you can’t live without? What would happen if God took away
your car, downsized your house, or maybe cuts your paycheck by a little? Are
you going to complain to Him and forget all the things He has done for you in
the past? If we are brutally honest about ourselves, we would admit we
are just like the Israelites who can get comfortable with a paycheck in the
bank and food on the table every day. But, Jesus never called us to live
a life of comfort.
Look
at your life and see if there is anything you can’t live without and ask God to
help you rely on him and not that comfort.
So many dwell on God's love to the point that they forget that He is a God of wrath as well.
ReplyDeleteHow easliy Christians forget the One whose name they wear.
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