Mankind through the ages has felt a certain right to grumble. If something doesn’t go right at work we grumble, if somebody treats us weird we grumble, if we get cut off in traffic we grumble, and if things don’t work out the way we like at church we grumble too. But that last one can be costly…
“Grumbling broke out the next day in the community of Israel, grumbling against Moses and Aaron.” ~Numbers 16:41
The thing that is so amazing about this verse is when it occurred. Just one day earlier Korah and 250 friends had rebelled against Gods leadership and the earth opened up and swallowed them whole. That must have been frightful to watch. But here it was the next day and the people were grumbling against what God just did. It was such an instinctive way of acting they didn’t even realize that was what Korah and crew had just done. They couldn’t see that their grumbling was just more disrespect and rebellion. Mankind is forever blind to this stuff. We feel absolutely entitled to gripe and complain whenever we want. While grumbling injures every relationship, it’s especially harmful to Christ and His church. Accordingly there are special warnings given to the followers of Christ who are commissioned to reflect Him well on the earth. But we have this problem, we’ve all embedded some measure of grumbling into our habits & personalities. It might do us good to evaluate our attitudes about Christ’s leadership and His church. Just out of curiosity, what is your GRUMBLING QUOTIENT? ~Verlon
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