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The people became like those who complain of adversity in the hearing of the LORD; and when the LORD heard it, His anger was kindled. –Numbers 11:1<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
Have you ever taken children on a road trip? Thirty minutes into the trip, what do they do? \u201cI\u2019m hungry!\u201d \u201cI\u2019m tired!\u201d \u201cI need to go to the bathroom!\u201d They complain, complain, complain. That\u2019s what the Israelites did as they traveled toward the promised land. Three days into their journey from Mount Sinai, they started to \u201ccomplain of adversity\u201d (Numbers 11:1). Moving two million people through the desert is not an easy thing to do. I\u2019m sure there were inconveniences. But the Israelites needed to keep that adversity in perspective. Think about what they had experienced: They had seen God spare their firstborn because of the lamb\u2019s blood on the doorposts. They had seen God soften Pharaoh\u2019s heart to let them go. They had seen God part the Red Sea. They had received God\u2019s revelation from Mount Sinai. Yet instead of expressing gratitude to God for all He had done, they focused on the adversity. How did God respond when the Israelites complained? \u201cHis anger was kindled, and the fire of the Lord burned among them and consumed some of the outskirts of the camp. The people therefore cried out to Moses, and Moses prayed to the Lord and the fire died out\u201d (vv. 1\u20132). The scorched earth was a visual reminder of how God deals with grumbling and ingratitude. Now, if you saw the fire of God consume everything around you, you might get the hint and stop complaining. Not the Israelites. In verses 4\u20136, the people went right back to complaining again. Sometimes we excuse people\u2019s complaining by saying, \u201cThat\u2019s just the way they are.\u201d Or they excuse themselves by joking, \u201cI\u2019m a born complainer!\u201d But God doesn\u2019t laugh it off. God hates grumbling, and that is still true today. Maybe you have gotten into a habit of complaining. You complain about the weather. You complain about your family. You complain about your job. You complain about the government. You complain about your church. Don\u2019t be surprised if you wake up one day and find that the mate you\u2019ve been complaining about decides to leave, or the job you\u2019ve said you hate is suddenly lost, or the family member you\u2019ve been complaining about is taken from you. God doesn\u2019t allow complaining to go unanswered. (Jeffress)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
The people became like those who complain of adversity in the hearing of the LORD; and when the LORD heard it, His anger was kindled. –Numbers 11:1 Have you ever taken children on a road trip? Thirty minutes into the trip, what do they do? \u201cI\u2019m hungry!\u201d \u201cI\u2019m tired!\u201d \u201cI need to go to … Continue reading “66.r. Numbers 11:1”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-199634","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-prayers"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prayingpint.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199634","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prayingpint.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prayingpint.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prayingpint.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prayingpint.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=199634"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.prayingpint.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199634\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":199637,"href":"https:\/\/www.prayingpint.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199634\/revisions\/199637"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prayingpint.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=199634"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prayingpint.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=199634"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prayingpint.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=199634"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}