FAITH CAPSULE: Acts of complaining are acts of rebellion.

Exodus 15

The coming out of the bondage of over four hundred years was a testimony for the children of Israel to keep going without disobedience to God.
Such testimony is not to be quiet testimony to what God can do should be a constant reminder, energizing a believer in the life journey.
Just as they came out of bondage and set for their journey to the Promised Land, they ran into a stumbling block. 
The chariot of Pharaoh came behind them, and they were bewildered by the land, closed up by the wilderness. 
For the children of Israel, there was nowhere to turn to but to face the forces of Pharaoh or jump and die in the Red Sea. 
Does that sound like you? 
Trust and hope that you serve a miracle-working God.
God, who made a way where there was no way, showed up on their behalf and made a way in the middle of the Red Sea. 
God did not only make an ordinary passage, but He made a substantial way. 
Exodus 14:22 records, “So the children of Israel went into the midst of the sea on the dry ground, and the waters were a wall to them on their right hand and on their left.”  
God made a way for His children to gain and retain life. 
In the same way, God for the Israelites made way as a death trap to the adversary of His children (Pharao and his people).
What a God! 
When God is for you, whatever stands against you will fall for you.  
Trust that when God is behind you, He is ahead of you, and the enemy can never be more powerful. 
The Israelites passed through the Red Sea but forgot what the Lord had done. 
By forgetting, they entered into rebellious acts against the Lord God. 
The Bible records, “And the people complained against Moses, saying, “What shall we drink?” (Exodus 15:23-24) 
The complaint to Moses was an indirect complaint unto God. 
Acts of complaining are acts of rebellion. 
Are you quickly forgetting what the Lord has done? Right after God responded by providing water to drink where there was no water, the word records they “…came to Elim, where there were twelve wells of water and seventy palm trees; so they camped there by the waters.” (Exodus 15:27) 
God was always ahead of them.
If they had remembered what He had done, they would have known God was ahead of them in challenging times. 
The Lord has not forgotten you. 
Remember always what God has done to provoke His hand so that He may add more than your imagination as you journey through this life.

Prayer for today: Ask God to deliver you from every spirit of complaining. Ask for the grace to constantly remember what He has done and what He can do.