14 I cannot carry all these people by myself; the burden is too heavy for me. 15 If this is how you are going to treat me, please go ahead and kill me—if I have found favor in your eyes—and do not let me face my own ruin.”
When I read these chapters, I tend to read them thru God's perspective.......these lines of complaining really make me laugh. Especially when look thru his lense. I'd be like,......really?
This line that I copy/pasted reminds me of Jesus. Moses was a great man, and actually spawned a religion.....that's a major deal. But, he was still complaining that the burden was too heavy. Jesus had even a greater burden.....and he took it with grace.
I won't even go into the fact that God is miraculously providing for his people......giving them food from heaven, and they are still complaining.
It reminds me of the "first world problem" videos. Have you seen these? Its where poor kids from some African country recite things that are said everyday by MY kids. Like, "I hate when I ask for no pickles on my hamburgers, and they still put the pickles on my burger......uuuggghhhhh."
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That is great perspective, Jesus completely took all the weight of the world with grace. He hangs on the cross and utters forgive them for they know not what they do.
ReplyDeleteI haven't seen the first world problems video but I have been using that term with my team and myself a lot lately. We feel like we are getting crushed at work the stress is immense. At the end of the day no one is dying because of decisions we are having to make or challenges we face at work. They are paying us hundreds of thousands of dollars to sit in a extremely nice facility with a nice built in cafeteria down the hall. Team gatherings and celebrations happening regularly. Probably 90% of Des Moines would trade places with those of us on the program let alone the poor kids of Africa. Not to diminish how we feel as humans, it is real but the perspective you took is absolutely sobering.
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