There are times when dealing with children, they want something you know either isn’t good for them or that isn’t going to be all they think it will be. YOU know that because you have the eyes of experience and maturity. THEY do not see that because they lack experience and maturity.There are times when wisdom warrants giving them what they want because it will only be through experience that they will realize for THEMSELVES that this is NOT really what they want. You can tell them and tell them and tell them but they will not really understand until they experience it.
Much the same with the Israelites.
God knew He alone was sufficient to meet all their needs but they whined and complained craving more, craving food then meat.
Numbers 11: 4-6 Now the rabble that was among them had a strong craving. And the people of Israel also wept again and said, “Oh that we had meat to eat! We remember the fish we ate in Egypt that cost nothing, the cucumbers, the melons, the leeks, the onions, and the garlic. But now our strength is dried up, and there is nothing at all but this manna to look at.”
Psalm 78:29 And they ate and were well filled, for he gave them what they craved.
Psalm 78:30-31 But before they had satisfied their craving, while the food was still in their mouths, the anger of God rose against them, and he killed the strongest of them and laid low the young men of Israel.
God gave them what they craved and they reveled in the quail and stuffed themselves…to death.
God knew HE was enough-The Israelites rejected Him and craved meat and He gave it to them.
The result? God killed the strongest of them and laid low the young men of Israel.
We may not always get what we want and often we get what we want but not the way we expected.
As I think about that statement, “for he gave them what they craved”, I don’t want God to give me what I crave if in the end it will draw my eyes and heart away from Him.
You and I lack the perspective of God. He alone can determine what truly is in our best interest – will we trust Him in that?
Think About This: “To be born again is, as it were, to enter upon a new existence, to have a new mind, a new heart, new views, new principles, new tastes, new affections, new likings, new dislikings, new fears, new joys, new sorrows, new love to things once hated, new hatred to things once loved, new thoughts of God, and ourselves, and the world, and the life to come, and salvation.” – J. C. Ryle
The Daily Bible Reading: 1 Corinthians 11 | You can download our 2021 Daily Bible Reading Plan by clicking here.
