And you murmured in your tents and said, ‘Because the Lord hated us he has brought us out of the land of Egypt, to give us into the hand of the Amorites, to destroy us, Moses reminds them in Deuteronomy 1:27. These are amazing words the Israelites uttered, especially considering all that the Lord God had done for them in rescuing them from Egypt.
We actually can't believe they could say something so stupid. Really? God brought you all this way to kill you? He passed over your houses in Egypt, while killing all the Egyptians' firstborn, just so He could slaughter you in the wilderness by the hands of the Canaanites? He heaped up the Red Sea along the side so you could walk through on dry - DRY! - land, then brought it back to cover your Egyptian pursuers only to destroy you in the very land He promised to give you?
And we shake our heads in disgust at their unbelief.
But wait a minute. Honestly now, how often have you felt that the Lord hated you? Or at least was ignoring you? Didn't consider your prayer/plight worth His time? The ceiling above your prayers felt like concrete.
Everyone else is seeing answered prayer, sometimes miraculously, but God doesn't really care about your difficulties.
Never mind the envy factor inherent in those thoughts. What about the daft understanding of God inherent there? This is the very God who created, chose, and rescued us from our slavery in the land of Sin and Satan. This the God who came and died FOR us in this land. The God of amazing love and kindness.
Remember under your concrete ceilings this God. Know Him as the God who has rescued you. And when you feel that whine rising in your heart and throat, remember.
He is not yet finished rescuing you.
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