From Mount Hor they set out by the way to the Red Sea, to go around the land of Edom; but the people became impatient on the way. The people spoke against God and against Moses, ‘Why have you brought us up out of Egypt to die in the wilderness? For there is no food and no water, and we detest this miserable food.’ Then the Lord sent poisonous serpents among the people, and they bit the people, so that many Israelites died. The people came to Moses and said, ‘We have sinned by speaking against the Lord and against you; pray to the Lord to take away the serpents from us.’ So Moses prayed for the people. And the Lord said to Moses, ‘Make a poisonous serpent, and set it on a pole; and everyone who is bitten shall look at it and live.’ So Moses made a serpent of bronze, and put it upon a pole; and whenever a serpent bit someone, that person would look at the serpent of bronze and live. (Numbers 21:4-9, NRSV)
The people of Israel are a lot like you and I…
Have you ever complained about your dwelling/surroundings only to move and find you really wish you were back where you were before? Or you compare here and there, there and here… trying to see which one is better.
The Israelites were slaves, but when they had no food, and were wandering in the wilderness they started to compare here to there, and there seemed a lot better.
They got hung up in the here and now and were not focused on the goal, the end, the prize, the wonderful place we will all be with God. We can not get hung up on the here and now and compare what we had with what we have, because something will always come up short and we will be dismayed and discouraged.
But God will always provide. Just as He provided the bronze healing snake to cure the snake bites, He will always provide.
So rest in the assurance that the prize, goal and end will be better and is worth the changes, challenges and the wait.
aSacredRebel 