The bible talks about the people leaving Egypt. We have always heard the miracle of the departing sea and never really thought much about any thing else. While discussing the Exodus with my children it hit me that there was more to the story than a miracle. The lesson is that whenever God performs a miracle like freeing the people from Egypt we rejoice and sing praises to him but as soon when our memory grows faint of the miracles and we find ourselves against the sea and the enemy advancing we start to complain. We begin to proclaim that it's not worth the effort and we would be better off to submit than to keep our faith. The devil's tool is to make it very apparent what we don't have and blinds us to what we do have. If we remove the blinders we would see that we have everything we need not everything we want. God hears our calls for things we want but as the people in the desert proved we suddenly let our desires overtake us and hoard up God's blessings and rationalize why it's OK. God cares about our wants but if it doesn't serve his purpose all the complaining in the world will not bring it about. If you are being rewarded with riches and life is not even a challenge then you better step back and take a look at your life because you may not be serving God but the Devil.
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