Exodus 16:3-and the people of Israel said to them, “Would that we had died by the hand of the Lord in the land of Egypt, when we sat by the meat pots and ate bread to the full, for you have brought us out into this wilderness to kill this whole assembly with hunger.“

When you think of the term “faith”, do you strictly define it as a means to believe God and endure a situation?  Though that qualifies as displaying faith in God, do you include in your definition, the ability to trust God to live in a completely new way?  Because if faith boils down to only enduring an old situation, we lose expectation that God can do a new thing, so we end up settling with our old identity/ways…(Ephesians 6:16, Hebrews 11:1)

God through Moses and Aaron, challenged the children of Israel who were used to being enslaved, to trust God for a new way of living.  God tried establishing this trust by first delivering them from Pharaoh, and destroying the Egyptians.  Yet the moment they ran into an “inconvenience” in their new life, they looked back in nostalgia of their old life…

Many times instead of faith, we do the same thing as the children of Israel.  Because unbelief is more “natural” more than walking by faith, we tend to reminisce on the “highlights” of our old life.  Conveniently forgetting, that before salvation and this new way of living, we were in bondage and slaves to sin!  (Galatians 4:7)

I believe what grieves the heart of God, is when I compare my “nostalgic moments” from my days of bondage, to God and His present test of my faith in His goodness. That in those times of unbelief, I am forgetting the overall misery of bondage, and highlighting moments with a skewed remembrance, that is ungrateful to what the Lord has delivered me from.

In His love, Jesus wants me to live “clear” in my reality.  That I am redeemed from sin and death, and challenged in a new way of life, that I must trust Him to be fulfilled in.  That is when I can live assured before God, that I am walking by faith and grateful for salvation. (Hebrews 10:22-23)

In His Love, Ld