Abundant Provision with a Sting

A wind sent by The Lord came up and blew quail in from the sea; it dropped them at the camp all around, three feet off the ground. About a days journey in every direction. The people were up all day and night and all the next day gathering the quail- the one who took the least gathered 50 bushels. And they spread them out all around the camp.
While the meat was still between their teeth, before it was chewed, the Lord's anger burned against the people, and The Lord struck them with a very severe plague. So they named the place Kibroth-hattaavah, (grave of cravings) because there they buried the people who had craved te meat. Numbers 11:31-34

It is not good to crave that which was not yours. I wonder if the people had not complained what God had planned anyway? When we walk in the flesh we can miss God's best.

I am so grateful for Christ. As I read about the Lord's anger and intolerance of sin I am so grateful that I was born in such a time as grace. I know I complain and God's anger does not burn against me, in fact I receive His mercy. The book of Numbers makes me rejoice that God sent His Son to heal the rift and make a way.

I am grateful that I can go to God, personally, and know He hears me, loves me, wants me in His Kingdom. The difference is so stark. You could be forgiven for believing that God was so hard to get along with that He would have been hard to live with. It comes from being holy, I guess. Sin and God do not cohabit the same space. Yet Christ made a way. God does not see sin in me, any more, He sees forgiven. Nothing changes that. If I am good it is because of my faith in Jesus Christ, and nothing more. Amen!

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