FMF: Adjust

"The whole Israelite community set out from Elim and came to the Desert of Sin, which is between Elim and Sinai, on the fifteenth day of the second month after they had come out of Egypt. In the desert the whole community grumbled against Moses and Aaron. The Israelites said to them, 'If only we had died by the Lord’s hand in Egypt! There we sat around pots of meat and ate all the food we wanted, but you have brought us out into this desert to starve this entire assembly to death.' " (Exodus 16:1-3, NIV)

The Israelites were God's chosen people, and yet they found themselves in the dessert, the last place they expected. They did not adjust well.  They had fled Egypt under Moses' guidance, looking for a land promised to them by God. It was a place where they would have religious freedom, and they would establish a land that was ruled by God.

Things did not go as they planned, and the Bible says the "grumbled." I love this word.  It reminds me of Grumpy Old Men. Those guys grumbled.

If I'm being honest, sometimes I grumble. As if I suddenly opened my eyes, I see that my life is not where I thought it would be.  I'm stuck in the sand instead of the promised land.  I look back at the way things used to be, and I long for the days of slavery instead of the freedom I have through Christ.

No, things are not always what we expect. However, when we seek God, we are equipped to make the adjustments needed.  Without Him, we are are just grumpy grumblers.


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