FAITH CAPSULE: With complaining, getting further in the journey of life is set to be permanently terminated.

Numbers 11

It is written, “And all the children of Israel complained against Moses and Aaron, and the whole congregation said to them, “If only we had died in the land of Egypt! Or if only we had died in this wilderness!” (Numbers 14:2) The quoted verse was the reaction of the Israelites in response to the spies that went to investigate the Promised Land. God responded to the Israelites through Moses and Aaron stating, “How long shall I bear with this evil congregation who complain against Me? I have heard the complaints which the children of Israel make against Me.  Say to them, ‘As I live,’ says the Lord, ‘just as you have spoken in My hearing, so I will do to you.”” (Numbers 14:27-28) The Israelites resolved to complain, despite their exposure to various miracles of God, they could not trust God and compliment Him in the face of confronting challenges.
Complaining is an act of rebellion; complaining environment is very unhealthy; complaining gets man to forget about God’s mighty acts; complaining will cause man to lose focus of where God is working in the life of a complainer. With the spirit of complaining, getting further in the journey of life is set to be permanently terminated.
Through the Bible, among all the giants in the hand of God, Moses must have spent more time in the presence of God than all. With Moses, God worked enough great and mighty wonders to keep any man from getting into direct or indirect complaining before God. All of Moses’ encounters with God were not enough for Moses not to forget that he was not alone, and God was with him when he stated in Numbers 11:14, “I am not able to bear all these people alone, because the burden is too heavy for me.” In taking up your God given assignment, are you assuming the position of the sole leader, when the Sender has not given up His role as the Almighty Leader? Despite all of Moses experience with God, he should not have gone so low to think that he was bearing the entire burden alone. In the face of life challenges, whenever the thought of “I” or “me”, comes into the picture, there is a great tendency to end up complaining indirectly or directly. Moses ended up complaining while responding to the complaints of the children of Israel.
However, if Moses could have arrived in such a situation, it demonstrates the understanding that no man should claim to have arrived in the journey of life. Apostle Paul’s stated in, 1 Corinthians 10:12, “Therefore let him who thinks he stands take heed lest he fall.” Whenever “I” or “me” comes into the picture, complaining becomes the frame and one is decorated for destruction.
Prayer for today: Ask God to for His grace not to ever be a victim of complaining.