A Cry for Bondage...

As I read Numbers 11 this morning, I couldn't help but to think of this subject
matter. 

In this passage of text, the Israelites were complaining to Moses about what
they had to eat.  God had delivered them from bondage and provided manna from
heaven, but that wasn't satisfying enough to them.  No - they craved the foods
they ate while they were held captive in Egypt.  Hence I say, A Cry for Bondage.  

God brings us out and delivers us, but He doesn't always do it according to
"our" standards and before long we find ourselves complaining and comparing the
now to the then.  As a result of their complaining and comparing, God said okay
- I will satisfy your cravings.  And He did just that. 

When he provided them with meat, the flesh that they whined for, they began to
gorge themselves on it.  They overindulged disgustingly.   While they were yet
in the act, God's anger grew exceedingly and He struck them with a plague. 

Our craving may not be for foods, but it may be a past relationship, friendship, job or some materialistic possession.  Be careful what you ask for, complain about and compare to - you may get exactly what you "think" you want!!! 

It's a new season and a new year - go into it with an open mind and willing spirit and allow God to do something fresh and new in your life.

Philippians 3:13...Brethren, I count not myself to have apprehended: but this one thing I do, forgetting those things which are behind, and reaching forth unto those things which are before.

Proverbs 3:5-6... Trust in the Lord with all thine heart; and lean not unto thine own understanding. In all thy ways acknowledge him, and he shall direct thy paths.