And who was it who rebelled against God, even though they heard His voice? Wasn’t it the people Moses led out of Egypt?
- Hebrews 3:16 (NLT)
In reading the Old Testament of the Bible, we see over and over where God’s children would find themselves in a bad place and they would cry out for Him to take action.
Over and over we see God take action.
God led His people out of Egypt where they were slaves into freedom.
The people did not go directly to the promised land though, they wandered for forty years.
Why, if God is a gracious God, would he lead them through a desert where they could see no food or water or an end in sight instead of just delivering them to the land that was promised to them?
Because these petulant children just would not listen.
Have you been around kid that pouts and throw a tantrum because they can’t have what they want?
I imagine that is what the Israelites might have looked like to God, He brought them out of Egypt, He protected them from the Pharaoh’s men by splitting the waters so they could walk through and put distance between the people and Egypt.
Then they complained about not having food and water.
God gave them food every day and fresh water out of dry rock, yet they built idols and worshipped them instead.
I have to wonder, if the people would have listened to God in the first place if that forty years would have been significantly shorter.
You see, hearing God’s voice isn’t the important thing, following God’s voice is.
We all hear Him.
We need to follow Him too.
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