How Long Will I Not Believe?
How Long Will I Not Believe?
25009 QGA
Numbers 14:11 The Context: The Israelites had just dramatically rebelled at the report of the spies that the land God had promised them was unconquerable. They refused to believe Joshua and Caleb that God could defeat the great armies of their promised land. They wanted to kill the messengers of God's greatness. God responded with anger at their unbelief and asked the question:
God asks us: Numbers 14:11 to Moses… How long will this people despise me? And how long will they not believe in me, in spite of all the signs that I have done among them?
Numbers 14:26 to Moses… How long shall this wicked congregation grumble against me?
jne: The Israelites had just finished several years of seeing some of the most miraculous, interventions of God that mankind has ever seen. God had so powerfully and patiently worked with them to bring them to the place where they could enter the promised land. But they complained.
Before I am too critical of them I need to remember the times I have doubted God's care for me, even consciously, and sometimes out loud. The truth is that I get far more loving care from God than I deserve. While I am ashamed to use the words, despise and unbelief are not incorrect of the way I respond to God in some of the challenges where I feel God isn't doing all that I think He should.
Just sitting here in my warm home in the middle of winter, I should more readily recognize the things God is doing in my life. LORD, please help me notice and thank You more readily and more often for the "signs" of Your powerful love with which you surround me.
25009 QGA
Numbers 14:11 The Context: The Israelites had just dramatically rebelled at the report of the spies that the land God had promised them was unconquerable. They refused to believe Joshua and Caleb that God could defeat the great armies of their promised land. They wanted to kill the messengers of God's greatness. God responded with anger at their unbelief and asked the question:
God asks us: Numbers 14:11 to Moses… How long will this people despise me? And how long will they not believe in me, in spite of all the signs that I have done among them?
Numbers 14:26 to Moses… How long shall this wicked congregation grumble against me?
jne: The Israelites had just finished several years of seeing some of the most miraculous, interventions of God that mankind has ever seen. God had so powerfully and patiently worked with them to bring them to the place where they could enter the promised land. But they complained.
Before I am too critical of them I need to remember the times I have doubted God's care for me, even consciously, and sometimes out loud. The truth is that I get far more loving care from God than I deserve. While I am ashamed to use the words, despise and unbelief are not incorrect of the way I respond to God in some of the challenges where I feel God isn't doing all that I think He should.
Just sitting here in my warm home in the middle of winter, I should more readily recognize the things God is doing in my life. LORD, please help me notice and thank You more readily and more often for the "signs" of Your powerful love with which you surround me.