They Didn't

Psalm 106 says, Our fathers in Egypt did not understand Your wonders;

They did not remember Your abundant kindnesses, But rebelled by the sea, at the Red Sea.

Nevertheless He saved them for the sake of His name, That He might make His power known. Our fathers in Egypt did not understand Your wonders;

Remember that group of people that wandered around in the wilderness for 40 years?  God abundantly supplied their need for food, drink, shoes, deliverance, etc. but because it wasn’t what they thought it should look like, or didn’t come in the manner they preferred, they soon forgot and rebelled.

Sounds like what we all do, doesn’t it?  I know I do.  God supplies my needs, and then when another need arises I totally go into the mode of wondering if he cares, where he is, and why he’s not answering. I forget to recall his faithfulness and kindness to me and mine. And just that act of forgetting is in a sense, rebelling.

Rebellious teens are not fun, when they fight us on every decision we make.  And yet we do that with the Lord, and it grieves his heart.

But what a loving God we serve, he saves us for the sake of his name and so that his power will be known to us…and to others.

Remember his abundant kindness to you and yours, today…