“Tell the people: ‘Consecrate yourselves in preparation for tomorrow, when you will eat meat. The LORD heard you when you wailed, “If only we had meat to eat! We were better off in Egypt!” Now the LORD will give you meat, and you will eat it. You will not eat it for just one day, or two days, or five, ten or twenty days, but for a whole month—until it comes out of your nostrils and you loathe it—because you have rejected the LORD, who is among you, and have wailed before him, saying, “Why did we ever leave Egypt?”’”
Numbers 11:18-20 NIV
You want meat. I'll give you meat.
Ever wanted something so bad and then after getting it wish you had never had it.
God has grown tired of the complaining coming from the people.
We read the story and think of the Israelites as a bunch of ungrateful brats.
Considering all that God has done for them, what right do they have to complain?
But wait, WE are the Israelites in the story - Not then, but now.
Consider the complaints that we have and then consider all that we have.
We must sound ridiculous to God on most days.
If we got all that we asked for . . .
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