Weariness
As the Israelites wandered in the desert, they became hungry. Then, God gave them manna. They ate the manna until they occupied the land of Canaan (cf. Jos. 5:12). But during their sojourn, the Israelites often looked back at their previous lives in Egypt. They frequently longed for their lives there and they grumbled at the situation they were in (cf Ex. 15:22; 16:1-4; 17:1-4; Num. 11; 12:1-12; 14:1-10; 16:41; 20:1-5; 21:4-5). In Numbers 21:5, they even said of the manna, “worthless food.”
As I meditated upon these things, I began to think of us. Have we also become weary of all the church services, ministries, activities, tithes, collections and other church related things too? Are we no longer satisfied with the salvific works of Christ Jesus and the teachings of the Bible, and are now looking for ‘other-worldly miracles’ only?
The Israelites were also looking back at their lives in Egypt and thought that they were happy. They never knew that they were moving towards the Promised Land, the land promised to them by God.
Likewise, we may have been looking back at other things in life and loathe all that has to do with the Church; never realising that we are also moving towards the Promised Land.
If we have become to engrossed with other things, loathing the ‘worthless food’ we have been fed in the Churches; remember that you could be looking at the picture from a wrong perspective.
Let us be like Paul who knew where he was going and what he was doing. He said, “I consider that the sufferings of this present time are not worthy comparing with the glory that is to be revealed to us” (Rom. 8:18).
