Grumble, Grumble, Grumble

This weekend was a good mix of fun, work and some great preaching (Check out the Crosspoint sermon from 8/16 if interested).  The sermon was on Exodus, shortly after the Israelites had crossed the Red Sea and were beginning to grumble about not having food nor water in the desert.  It was a convicting sermon which just shows me how much better I have it in today’s life with food a couple steps away and over 50 magical things called faucets which will provide water immediately.  And yet, I find that I grumble a lot to God when things are going so hot.  I find that the word is so appropriate with my overall attitude when life isn’t going my way.  If we take a closer look at the grumbling, we can uncover a whole host of nasty dark attitudes which God finds abhorrent.  Worship of the idol of ease, discontented-ness of where we are in life and general extreme lack of gratefulness not only for our salvation, but also just for our current lifestyle just to name a few.

All of this isn’t to provide a dark thought to start the week off, but rather to call those like me to shake off some of the grumbling.  Know that God will provide for those that He loves even if through a season of suffering.