LEARN TO PRAISE GOD UNDER ALL CIRCUMSTANCES.... Praise is the way to go. Murmuring and complaining keeps one away from the promised land. Let me bring to your attention some instances of grumbling and complaining by the Children of Israel. Now there was a time when “…the people complained about their hardships in the hearing of the LORD, and when he heard them his anger was aroused. Then fire from the LORD burned among them and consumed some of them in the outskirts of the camp.” (Numbers 11:1) Also, there was another time when the children of Israel said, “We remember the fish which we ate freely in Egypt, the cucumbers, the melons, the leeks, the onions, and the garlic, but now our whole being is dried up; there is nothing at all except manna before our eyes. (Numbers 11:5-6). one more example is that. There was a time when the spies return from searching out the promised land and return with an unfavorable report. “So all the congregation lifted up their voices and cried, and the people wept that night. And all the children of Israel complained against Moses and Aaron, and the whole congregation said to them, “If only we had died in the land of Egypt! or if only we had died in this wilderness! (Numbers 14:1-2) Do you see a pattern here? God had already led them out of Egypt (the land of bondage), but they were so ungrateful to the point that their complaints continued to grow, and they made slavery sound like a picnic. They would have rather remained in slavery or even die. How awful! Therefore, when you don’t see God leading or moving the way you think He should, I caution you to refrain from grumbling, murmuring, griping and complaining, and to THANK HIM FOR WHERE YOU ARE, AND WHAT YOU DO HAVE. Let me take a moment to enlighten you. When we murmur, it is actually against God, and murmuring and complaining is a sin with serious consequences. For the Israelites He said, “The carcasses of you who have complained against Me shall fall in this wilderness, all of you who were numbered, according to your entire number, from twenty years old and above.” (Numbers 14:29)
Posted on: Fri, 14 Nov 2014 04:09:12 +0000