Contemplative Bible Reading

Numbers 16:12-14 (New Living Translation)

¹² Then Moses summoned Dathan and Abiram, the sons of Eliab, but they replied, “We refuse to come before you! ¹³ Isn’t it enough that you brought us out of Egypt, a land flowing with milk and honey, to kill us here in this wilderness, and that you now treat us like your subjects? ¹⁴ What’s more, you haven’t brought us into another land flowing with milk and honey. You haven’t given us a new homeland with fields and vineyards. Are you trying to fool these men? We will not come.”

Yes, Egypt. The people described Egypt as a land flowing with milk and honey. What happened to all that stuff about the people crying in the pain an agony of slavery? Things sure changed in a hurry. Now Egypt was flowing with milk and honey and lollipop trees and all that goodness.

Us today? Gosh I was miserable then, but now I am happy. That is until I am miserable in my new circumstance and then yesterday seems so sweet and why oh why did God put me in this miserable place with these miserable people? How does God tolerate us? I am thankful that He does.