Psalms 106:7-23 makes us give thought to what those people had witnessed God do for them. He supplied the deliverer 'Moses' as the prophets had written, he delivered them from great bondage, he parted the waters of the Red Sea so that they could cross and escape from the hands of those following to kill them, he fed them with manna falling from the sky and he supplied water from dry rocks along their route.
We in today's time may think how could they after seeing all of that ever deny the power of God. How could they doubt that he would supply their needs for the rest of their trip, how could they doubt that he'd deliver them to where he had promised? How after seeing such wondrous signs could they ever doubt?
They did doubt!
They got inpatient and took matters in their own hands and created a golden calf as an idol to worship. They turned their back on God because they didn't think he was giving them what they wanted quick enough. They didn't want to wait, they wanted it all now. They became afraid that what they had been promised may never come to pass.
Without patience our desires tend to run wild and we probably end up trying God's patience with us. It is easy for us to think about how blind they must have been in Psalm 106 to have seen all of that and still not trust God to deliver them as promised.
Well don't we do the same thing all the time? We may not have seen seas parted but we have seen the wondrous works of God in our lives, in the lives of others and in the world today. Yet, people every day turn their backs to God and doubt him, take matters into their own control, and deny God has the power to deliver them.
We have been promised many things in God's word.
God has given many promises if we rely on him, trust him and come to him. But, when we believe we have trusted him and have given things to him but we don't feel the answer came quick enough or perhaps it wasn't the answer we sought, don't we just like the people in Psalm 106 become inpatient? Sure we do.
We forget to trust that we will receive eternal life with God, we forget that this life is just our passage to be with him, we forget that God's way is the only way, our way if we pursue it without God's guidance will in all likelihood be the wrong path.
We are no better then those people in Psalm 106.
We also tend to not rely on God to answer our desires, supply our needs, give us the strength to get through a trying time, to heal us, to give us wisdom. How many times have you turned to prayer to get God's guidance when you have had a crisis? We have seen the wonders of God but we to deny him and don't seek him at all times when we are in need.
God has sent us our own deliverer, Jesus Christ. Yet, after God sending his son to exist on earth and to be crucified for our sins, we still sometimes doubt when our needs are great.
How can we after seeing God work in our lives ever doubt his love for us, ever doubt his desire to help us, ever doubt his ability to solve all of our problems, ever doubt his willingness to give us comfort during hard times, ever doubt his wish to guide us toward a path of righteousness?
Most of all how could we ever doubt the promises that has been granted to us if we Just believe? Every word of the bible gives us peace, comfort, guidance, words to live by. If we follow them and rely on God for his comfort, his guidance, his wisdom and his insight, our life will be so much better.
It is when we don't rely on God and we take our lives into our own hands that we get ourselves into situations we shouldn't have, into friendships we may suffer from, into relationships we shouldn't be in, into financial situations we can't handle, into dire emotional straits we can't cope with, into such turmoil that our life may seem endless and unbearable.
Turn it all to God, give it to him, seek his word, seek his love, seek his comfort, seek his guidance, wisdom and insight. Seek God in your lives at every turn. We have seen his power, we have seen his miracles, we have seen his wonder, now we must have patience and let God work in our lives.
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