God Meets You In Your Circumstances
Numbers 11:14,15 “I can’t carry all these people by myself! The load is far too heavy! 15 If this is how you intend to treat me, just go ahead and kill me. Do me a favor and spare me this misery!”
To fully understand this scripture, you have to read the entire 11th chapter in the book of Numbers. In short, the Israelites were in the wilderness with Moses, whining and complaining. This time it was about not having meat to eat. They were whining about not having meat with cucumbers, melons, leeks (a type of onion but sweeter in taste), onions, and garlic. They were begging for the food they had when they were slaves in Egypt. Would you believe they made a grocery list for Moses of what they wanted, which was back in Egypt! These folks pushed Moses to the breaking point, where he was begging God to kill him to spare him this misery of hearing this whining day after day.
God gives Moses the answer in verse 16. But here is the point. Everyone gets to the point of giving up. I’m talking about your breaking point where you can do no more. Remember, Moses saw the miracles of God, survived the death angel during Passover, and witnessed the ultimate miracle: God splitting the Red Sea to allow the Israelites to walk on dry land. Moses was not a stranger to God, nor was he lacking in confidence in God’s abilities. It was the Israelites’ persistent daily whining and complaining that drove Moses to the breaking point.
The most important thing that Moses did was to call out to God. He didn’t take matters into his own hands. We, too, should follow the same actions that Moses took in times of trouble and desperation: pray and call out to God. Here is something else that is important: God will not always change your situation, but He will meet you in your situation to help you. Why? Because He wants you and others to know that He is bigger than anything or any problem that you are facing. If God changes your circumstances, it won’t help you. God is more interested in changing you to help you grow and mature so that you can go through your circumstances.
When you are faced with challenges so overwhelming that you don’t think you can bear them, the best thing you will ever do is to call out to God and turn it over to Him. God will meet you in the middle of your storm, then change you so that you will endure. Remember, God sent someone to meet the Hebrew boys in the middle of the fire. God didn’t change the fire. He changed the boys to endure the fire!
Be Blessed!
Ron
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