Numbers 20:11

I think this was the second time that the Israelites complained about their situation and upset with Moses for leading them out of Egypt. The Israelites even said that at least in Egypt, the would not die of starvation. This is incredulous to me simply because of how short minded and short-sighted they are. God told Moses to strike a rock and this is so powerful to me because of the two sides in this verse. One, my frustration with the Israelites is very funny especially since I know that I am no better. I look back right now and can think of all the doubts and complaints that I have about why my life panned out this way in order for me to be where I am. The Israelites were enslaved in Egypt, with painstaking lives and hard manual labor day in and day out. Yet we see now how they still have the audacity to complain. I understand that they are wandering in the desert for quite some time and that there is no foreseeable end, but to just have that perspective and to evaluate where they are at and where they used to be, it seems very similar to what I do on an everyday basis. My application for this week is to be more cognitive of my thinking. My complaints are daily, my struggles are daily, but to be sustained by God in every second of my life should be apparent. I need to be metacognitive of my complaints and stress, to think with an eternal perspective.