Cool Stuff...

Memory is a funny thing. We remember a couple things and everything else melds into mush as years pass. In time we color entire seasons of our life by a few events. And when things get hard now we romanticize the past, even when it wasn’t all that good.
“The whole company of Israel complained in the wilderness. Why didn’t God let us die in comfort in Egypt where we had lamb stew and all the bread we could eat? You’ve brought us out into this wilderness to starve.” ~Ex. 16:3
This verse makes me laugh. Israel was only a few days into the wilderness, and were running out of food. Even though God had done amazing miracles in the previous week, they still weren’t wired to make room for Him to do more. They became convinced they were going to starve and longed for the ‘comfort’ of Egypt. Comfort? What comfort? They were forced to bake bricks in the hot sun from sunrise to sunset and were beaten if they lagged. They had their infants ripped from their arms and killed for population control. They were slaves! And now, rather than facing this challenge squarely, they sulked and longed for the past, that wasn’t actually a very good past. We do that too. By the way, they woke up the next morning to bread with honey on it falling from the sky and quail flying into their camp that evening. That provision continued every day for 40 years. My point? Don’t lust for the comforts of yesterday, they weren’t that good and What God has planned for you and me today is pretty COOL STUFF. ~Verlon