Ungratefulness

If we go to the Book of Numbers, in the Old Testament, Chapter 20, just a couple of verses:

“Now there was no water for the congregation; so they gathered together against Moses and Aaron.
And the people contended (contended means to struggle against. They contended) with Moses and spoke, saying: “If only we had died when our brethren died before the Lord!
Why have you brought up the assembly of the Lord into this wilderness, that we and our animals should die here?
And why have you made us come up out of Egypt, to bring us to this evil place?”

Ungratefulness!

The Lord had delivered the children of Israel, out of slavery, out of Egypt, but when the going got tough, they turned against God’s servants, Moses and Aaron.

Why do we do that?

When the going gets tough, we always complain against the one who loved us the most.

John Chapter 15 and verse 13 says:

“Greater love has no one than this than to lay down one’s life for one’s friends.”

And that is what Jesus Christ did for you and me on the Cross of Calvary.

We always seem to blame the ones we love the most when things don’t go well.

Do you remember that old poem, that story that goes something like this?


Lord, across the dark sky flashed scenes from my life.

For each scene, I noticed two sets of footprints in the sand,

One belonging to me and one to my Lord.
After the last scene of my life flashed before me,

I looked back at the footprints in the sand.

I noticed that at many times along the path of my life,

especially at the very lowest and saddest times,

there was only one set of footprints.
This really troubled me, so I asked the Lord about it.

"Lord, you said once I decided to follow you,

You'd walk with me all the way.

But I noticed that during the saddest and most troublesome times of my life,

there was only one set of footprints.

I don't understand why, when I needed You the most,
You would leave me."
He whispered, "My precious child,
I love you and will never leave you

Never, ever, during your trials and testings.

When you saw only one set of footprints,

It was then that I was carrying you.”