Complaints

Mankind has always been an expert on ways to complain about things that have gone wrong.

For example, when we sinned, we did not follow what the LORD had told us and we ended

up complaining, even though we were the ones who sinned. We are great at complaining!

But the Bible tells us that God hears us even when we complain. It is wrong to build our lives

by complaining. There is no ministry of complaints in God’s Kingdom! This complaining and

ungrateful attitude was becoming longer and more hostile and was something that the LORD

brought to the front with the people of Israel early on. Exodus 16 explains that the people were

complaining, even after God had miraculously shifted and changed their circumstances in the

desert. Think about this: there were more than a million people who moved out of Egypt from

under the provisions they had there, to the desert where there were no provisions. Yet God

provided for them!