Do you enjoy a good whinge?

What’s your ‘DEFAULT’ setting?

Grumbling can be an easy go-to when things are not going the way we think they should. Perhaps you love a good whinge as a way to get things off your chest. Maybe you just whinge silently in your heart and mind- letting things brew!

When someone makes a decision we think is foolish, rather than talk to them, we will talk about them, and when it affects us we grumble.

The Exodus account details a time when the Israelites, found themselves in a new and unknown place, with a new identity as free people.

They are uncertain, and it gives way to fear and grumbling.

The desire to go back to the way things were is powerful but imagined. Perhaps you too don’t cope well with change!

They grumble rather than trust the One who freed them and gave them hope.

And this discontent leads to disobedience.

Yet in Exodus 16- the manna and quail chapter, we see the great mercy and love of God continue to provide for them, manna and water in the wilderness.

God in Jesus provides for us in our wilderness, the ultimate manna from heaven.- and yet we all too easily fall into a pattern of grumbling rather than trusting our Heavenly Father as we look to the Son!