“…. Who will give us meat to eat? For it was better for us in Egypt.” Numbers 11:18a ESV
How does it feel like to be stuck in a place with no meat? Or stuck in a place where a thing of pleasure is no more? I guess the common reaction would be to go back to that place to satisfy that craving. For the Israelites, they believed they were better off back in Egypt as slaves. A missing pleasure like meat was enough to make them overlook being saved from slavery. Sometimes the little things we do not have can make us overlook the big things we have. To be freed from slavery is a big thing. It means being released from generational slavery. Released from a life where your future was already determined by the slave master. What God did was a big thing, it cost lives and was their answered prayer. I am no better than the Israelites. There are many times I’ve overlooked the big things God has done for me and complained about the little things of pleasure I did not have. I’ve failed to hold in high esteem what cost blood and water, and complained about my lack of earthly things. And all that, knowing very well it is not His nature to keep good things from me. I have learned that it is important to live in a place of consistent remembrance and gratitude for the big things like Jesus Christ, life, family, health and not allow the lack of the little things make me to reject God.
