FAITH CAPSULE: Are you placing more focus on what you want more than how the Lord has been providing for your needs?

Exodus 16

It is written, “Blessed is the man who trusts in the Lord and whose hope is in the Lord.” (Jeremiah 17:7) Trusting God without having hope in God shall result to no blessing. Trusting God and having hope in God makes man to rest on God and not be rebellious.  Many times the Israelites trust in God but no hope in God. The Israelites trust God to bring them out of bondage but could not hope in God meeting their needs.
Are you troubling to seek after want rather than after needs?
The Psalmist confessed, “The Lord is my shepherd I shall not want” (Psalm 23:1). Having faith is to trust and hope on what He has for us.
During the wilderness journey, the children of Israel wanted what they left behind in Egypt instead of trusting and hoping in God to meet their needs. Without trusting and hoping in God they resulted to complaint. The children of Israel’s remembrance of what they were eating in Egypt (fish, cucumbers, melons, leeks, onions and garlic – Numbers 11:5) was a clear demonstration of the fact that their wants were overriding the Lord’s provision of their need for the journey.
Are you placing more focus on what you want more than how the Lord has been providing for your needs?
The children of Israel’s lack of want at hand turned them to a vessel of complain before God.
Complaining instead of complementing God for His provision is a very act of rebellion.
Complaining is a destiny terminator and it denies getting to the Promised Land.
The Israelites craved for a pot of meat and bread. In God’s provision for them, God gave instruction to make them have enough according to their need stating, “…Let every man gather it according to each one’s need, one omer for each person, according to the number of persons; let every man take for those who are in his tent.” (Exodus 16:16) Despite God’s instruction that was enough for meeting needs, some went above and beyond God’s instruction by taking more than needed. As a result of not following instruction, all the children who took more eventually lost all that was taken (Exodus 16:18-21). The children of Israel were lost in their desire for wants and they could not recognized needs provided by God. Trusting and hoping in God is enough to meet our needs. Be patient, look up to God and know that God’s provision is always on time to meet needs. Paul confirmed, “And my God shall supply all your need according to His riches in glory by Christ Jesus.” (Philippians 4:19)

Prayer for today: Ask God for the grace to deliver and preserve you from the spirit of complaining.