Faith or Fear?

It’s amazing. Even after everything that God has done for his people, they are STILL complaining. But I find it still amazing that we do the same thing as Christians in today’s world. Here we have the Isrealites, Moses bringing them out of Egypt, God wiping out the huge army chasing them with the parting of the Red Sea. God gave them a cloud to follow during the day, and a fire out of nowhere to guide them at night, God brought them the manna, and the list goes on and on. Yet when they can’t find a little water, “o how we should have stayed slaves in Egypt, rather being lead out here to die!!! O the horror!!” (this is totally paraphrased btw). They still insist on going back to their old way of life. What about us as Christians today? How many times have we had God deliver us from something huge? Something we knew their was no way on earth that could have happened unless it was a devine intervention. We see God at work so many times in our life, but then when something happens usually our first reaction is something of the same, “maybe I should go back to this……, or you know that I know is wrong, but at least it worked out……”. I can’t count the number of times I have experienced this in my life. But the one thing I always know, is that God is there with me. Just like with the Isrealites, he didn’t get mad and smite them with a lightning bolt for doubting, Ya there are times in the bible when he allowed for punishment, but he never wiped out his entire people. He provided. God always provides for his children, but I have found through personal experience, he usually wants to wait to see what our first reaction is, faith or fear? So what has your first reaction been, Faith or Fear?

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