DCLM Daily Manna 2 July 2021 – What Displeases God written by Pastor W.F Kumuyi
DCLM DAILY MANNA FOR FRIDAY 2ND JULY 2021
TOPIC: WHAT DISPLEASES GOD
TEXT: Numbers 11:1-9
KEY VERSE: “And when the people complained, it displeased the LORD: and the LORD heard it; and his anger was kindled; and the fire of the LORD burnt among them, and consumed them that were in the uttermost parts of the camp.” – (Numbers 11:1)
DCLM Daily Manna 2 July 2021 Outline:
There are many cases and circumstances in the Bible that may help us know what displeases God and what He takes delight in. In Genesis, we are told of how the disobedience of Adam and Eve led to their expulsion from bliss to bondage; and God showed His disapproval to the generation of Noah by destroying them with flood. Also at the time of Abraham, God, in a dream, revealed to Abimelech a heathen King, His utter displeasure in taking Sarah, Abraham’s wife to be his wife and warned of the imminent consequences.
God has never hidden to mankind what He likes or dislikes. The obvious truth is that, what displeases Him at a time, or in a generation, will certainly annoy Him in another. Our focus in today’s discourse is an area we often do not look at in the things that God frowns at. The Israelites resorted to complaining, murmuring and lust for the things of Egypt to their own detriment.
Today DCLM Daily Manna 2 July 2021
Instead of thanking God and being grateful that they were no longer in the slavery and bondage of the Egyptian task masters, they began to desire the dainties of slavery. No matter how fat or well fed they were in Egypt, they were still slaves! Complaining or murmuring makes people forget all of God’s faithfulness in the past. The Israelites forgot all that was promised them before they were rescued from servitude.
How could they compare where they were in the wilderness to Egypt where they were coming from? He took them through the wilderness where they had just enough food, shelter, protection and God’s presence was sufficient to preserve them. Now, why does God hate complaining, murmuring or lusting? It is because it is a mark of unbelief, and shows faithlessness and ingratitude.
THOUGHT FOR THE DAY: Murmuring and complaining attract divine wrath.
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