Saturday, April 16, 2011

DAY ELEVEN: Whining in the dessert

Today's reading: Numbers 9 - 21
I got a bit behind - I read but didn't post on Thursday, and then skipped reading at all on Friday. One nice thing about the YouVersion online Bible reading plans is that you can catch yourself up without doing a double portion.

I've been overwhelmed with life the past few days - getting down about Dan's job search - it's stretching on and on forever as companies are taking their sweet time in making a decision. It's frustrating to wait and wait and wait with no end in sight. And then it occurred to me - I've been reading for the past few days about the Israelites traveling endlessly through the dessert - with the promise of Canaan before them - but not knowing when and how they would enter and conquer that land. I whine and moan about this situation we are in - not knowing how long our money will last - and if we are going to get to stay in this area or move somewhere else. But, God will take care of us. I am also learning from these reading sessions in Numbers that God can get angry at whiners who keep forgetting how He will take care of them. These passages are hard for me to read - when God opens the ground up to swallow people or burns everything down or sends a plague to wipe out 14,000 people who have become impatient with Him. But, I don't question it - just note it.

God forgive me for my lack of of trust in you! I know you will take care of us.

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