“Thank God for Unanswered Prayers”

Numbers 9-11

Have you ever noticed how the grass is always greener on the other side of your memory?  We have a great tendency to only remember the good things of the past while ignoring the bad, or what about those that never seem to live and enjoy their lives today.  They’re always reminiscing about the good old days, but never bother to work at creating the good new ones.  That’s where we find the children of Israel in today’s reading.  They’re up and moving to the Promised Land, but complaining the whole way.  What’s their biggest beef?  “Where’s the beef???”  They want meat.  I can just see them sitting around camp beating their forks on the camel skins chanting, “WE WANT MEAT, WE WANT MEAT!”  Well you can’t say that God doesn’t have a wry sense of humor.  He circles the whole camp with a three-foot deep ring of quail.  Their greener grass just turned into browner feathers.  I bet that’s the day they each learned Garth Brooks' song, “Thank God for Unanswered Prayers”.

We find the greenest grass, the tastiest meat and the only God TODAY.  “This is day which the Lord hath made.  Let us rejoice and be glad in IT.”  Psalms 118:24