Numbers 16-17
Convenient that it is April Fool's Day as I read this chapter. Again and again I reminded about the foolishness of those dumb Israellites. Prideful, ungrateful, and forgetful would be the perfect words to describe them. Here Korah approaches Moses and has the gall to say..
16:3
And they gathered themselves together against Moses and against Aaron, and said unto them, [Ye take] too much upon you, seeing all the congregation [are] holy, every one of them, and the LORD [is] among them: wherefore then lift ye up yourselves above the congregation of the LORD?
Everyone of them? Come on! How prideful is that! God showed him later by...
16:33
They, and all that [appertained] to them, went down alive into the pit, and the earth closed upon them: and they perished from among the congregation.
As unimaginable that sequence of events is the verses following jumped out at me...
16:41
But on the morrow all the congregation of the children of Israel murmured against Moses and against Aaron, saying, Ye have killed the people of the LORD.
On the morrow? The very next day they had already forgotten about God's judgment, and they began their gripping and complaining all over again! The plague then followed.
Abba, please forgive me when I forget Your greatness. When I follow the idols of this present time and then tend to complain instead of basking in Your goodness and greatness!
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