The Israelites asked a question,/Is the Lord among us,or not?/[Exodus 17v7 ],why should they ask such a question?,they of all people had witnessed Gods power in so many ways. Go forward to Matthew 16v 8-11,here we have our Saviour ,rebuking His disciples for their lack of faith,and so He says to them ,/ do ye not yet understand, neither remember the five loaves of the five thousand,and how many baskets ye took up/He also spoke of the four thousand. How quickly Israel appeared to forget what God had done,why? in the disciples case they were rebuked for lack of faith,in Israels case they could only see the difficulty,and this caused them to act in an irrational way.They saw God as an absentee land lord,one who was no longer around,is God only the God of the good times?,is the God of the past not the God of the present,it was Gideon who asked the question,/If the Lord be with us,why then has all this befallen us?[ Judges6 v13],.I wonder are you tempted to ask the same question?.It is so easy to let the cares and pressures of life,squeeze faith out of us,to the point that we gave up.As I thought on this I think the problem with Israel, the disciples, and us is,a wrong concept of what it means to follow God.Let us remember God has not promised skies always blue, no He hasn't,but He has promised to never leave us nor forsake us,He has promised strength for each day, and to be our light in the darkest of valleys,so let us stop our complaining, and trust in one who loves us, with an unconditional and everlasting love.
A prayer..../Dear God and Father forgive our foolish ways, help us to be faithful in the good times and in the difficult time,help us to trust and not complain, in Jesus name Amen./
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