FAITH CAPSULE: Acts of complaining are acts of rebellion.
Exodus 15
The coming out of bondage of over four hundred years was a great testimony for the children of Israel. Such testimony is not to be a quiet one, but to be a testimony to what God can do. It is to be a constant reminder, energizing a believer in the journey of life. Just as they came out of bondage and set for their journey to the Promised Land, they ran into a stumbling block. Pharaoh’s chariots 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 that you serve a miracle working God; a God that makes a way where there is no way. God 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. It is written, “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.” (Exodus 14: 22) God made a way for His children to give and retain life. However, God made way’s for His children became a death trap to adversary of His children.
When God is for you whatever stand against you will fall for you. Trust that when God is behind you He is also ahead of you and the enemy can never be more powerful. The Israelites, after having passed through the Red Sea quickly forgot what the Lord had done. By forgetting, they entered into rebellious acts against the Lord God. The bible recorded, “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 that sent Moses. Acts of complaining are acts of rebellion. All that could have been done was for them to cry to God that made a way where there is was no way. Are you quickly forgetting what the Lord has done? Right after God responded by providing water to drink where there is no water, the Israelites, “…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 also a head of them. If they had remembered what He had done, they would have known that He is ahead of them in challenging times. The Lord has not forgotten you. Always remember what He has done to provoke His hand that He may add more than your imagination as you journey through in 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.