Daily Manna 2 July
KEY VERSE: “And when the people complained, it displeased the LORD: and the LORD heard it, and his anger was kindled, and the fire of the LORD burnt among them and consumed them that were in the uttermost parts of the camp.” – (Numbers 11:1).
TEXT: Numbers 11:1-9
Now when the people complained, it displeased the Lord; for the Lord heard it, and His anger was aroused. So the fire of the Lord burned among them, and consumed some in the outskirts of the camp. 2 Then the people cried out to Moses, and when Moses prayed to the Lord, the fire was quenched. 3 So he called the name of the place Taberah, because the fire of the Lord had burned among them.
4 Now the mixed multitude who were among them yielded to intense craving; so the children of Israel also wept again and said: “Who will give us meat to eat? 5 We remember the fish which we ate freely in Egypt, the cucumbers, the melons, the leeks, the onions, and the garlic; 6 but now our whole being is dried up; there is nothing at all except this manna before our eyes!”
7 Now the manna was like coriander seed, and its color like the color of bdellium. 8 The people went about and gathered it, ground it on millstones or beat it in the mortar, cooked it in pans, and made cakes of it; and its taste was like the taste of pastry prepared with oil. 9 And when the dew fell on the camp in the night, the manna fell on it.
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There are many causes and circumstances in the Bible that may help us know what displeases God and what He takes delight in. In Genesis, we are told of how the disobedience of Adam and Eve led to their expulsion from bliss to bondage; and God showed His disapproval to the generation of Noah by destroying them with a flood. Also at the time of Abraham, God, in a dream, revealed to Abimelech a heathen King, His utter displeasure in taking Sarah, Abraham’s wife to be his wife and warned of the imminent consequences.
God has never hidden to mankind what He likes or dislikes. The obvious truth is that, what displeases Him at a time, or in a generation, will certainly annoy Him in another. Our focus in today’s discourse is an area we often do not look at in the things that God frowns at. The Israelites resorted to complaining, murmuring and lust for the things of Egypt to their own detriment.
Instead of thanking God and being grateful that they were no longer in the slavery and bondage of the Egyptian taskmasters, they began to desire the dainties of slavery.
No matter how fat or well-fed they were in Egypt, they were still slaves! Complaining or murmuring makes people forget all of God’s faithfulness in the past. The Israelites forgot all that was promised to them before they were rescued from servitude.
How could they compare where they were in the wilderness to Egypt where they were coming from? He took them through the wilderness where they had just enough food, shelter, protection and God’s presence was sufficient to preserve them. Now, why does God hate complaining, murmuring or lusting? It is because it is a mark of unbelief, and shows faithlessness and ingratitude.
THOUGHT FOR THE DAY: Murmuring and complaining attract divine wrath.
BIBLE IN ONE YEAR: 2 Kings 3-4
Thank you for studying today’s Daily Manna – What Displeases God – by Pastor Enoch A.
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Daily Manna 2 July 2021
