Morning Moments

THE WANT
[Ex 15:24] And the people murmured against Moses, saying, What shall we drink?

What’s wrong with wanting water? Nothing! What’s wrong with wanting food, clothes, shelter, sex or anything else for that matter that is a natural and normal need for the human body? NOTHING, as long as it is within the parameters of the will and word of God. It was the murmuring against God’s man and God’s plan that provoked God. By the way, it still does.

The test for the multitude was also a test for the man of God. He never claimed to be adequate. In fact, he was even reluctant to be available in the beginning, but the Lord taught him that He would supply, sustain, satisfy, and support him. What more does any man of God need? The promise of God demands the provision, power, and protection of God, whether or not it seems reasonable, rational, or realistic.

God has designed us as believers so that He can work in us causing us to desire and do His good pleasure, but when we desire and do our good pleasure we miss the glorious opportunity for God to vindicate His deity in our humanity.

The ways was barren, the water was bitter, and the people were bickering and that is what ticked God off. Churches split because of murmuring and bickering. Pastors leave the pastorate because of murmuring and bickering. God give no such gift as criticism, backbiting, complaining, criticizing, or the like. If you do it you are standing with the enemy and will be judged for it.

The early Church was seeing the untold blessings of God, but they a handful of Hellenists began murmuring and God put things on hold until the problem could be solved and the complaining stopped. Whatever the problem, we must face it with praise to God and compassion toward people; with longsuffering and doctrine. We are to always do unto others that which we would have done unto us and we must do it considering ourselves also lest we be tempted. It’s God way to supply our want, lack, or need. God usually does that through other people but He can and will do it another way if He has to, so let’s stop finding fault and start fortifying faith.

BLESSINGS!