Our view of God shapes how we view what God does 

Tough break for Brooklyn, but thankfully not literally! She took a fall but no broken bones. She needs to wear the splint for a bit to make sure her wrist is all good.

It’d be easy to get upset and discouraged by late-night ER trips, injuries, and other setbacks, but our view of God needs to be based on more than what’s going on right now. If we wait until tough times or times of testing to decide what we believe about God, we’ll usually get it wrong. 

Numbers‬ ‭14‬:‭2‬-‭3‬ ‭says, “And all the children of Israel murmured against Moses and against Aaron: and the whole congregation said unto them, Would God that we had died in the land of Egypt! or would God we had died in this wilderness! And wherefore hath the LORD brought us unto this land, to fall by the sword, that our wives and our children should be a prey? were it not better for us to return into Egypt?”

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Circumstances were bad, so they questioned God’s goodness. It didn’t matter to them that God was the miracle worker Who wanted to give them the Promised Land.  

Numbers‬ ‭14‬:‭39‬-‭40‬ ‭records how they took matters into their own hands: “And Moses told these sayings unto all the children of Israel: and the people mourned greatly. And they rose up early in the morning, and gat them up into the top of the mountain, saying, Lo, we be here, and will go up unto the place which the LORD hath promised: for we have sinned.”

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They went without God and were defeated. 

We can’t have God’s best apart from God. He is just and perfect. We’re the ones who need to repent sometimes.

Whatever is coming your way right now, let’s always keep the right view of God. 

Today’s Bible verse is Numbers 14.