"Submersion of Pharaoh in the Red Sea", c 1515-1520, by Andrea Previtali.
This post is part of my 31 day journey through Andrew Murray's devotional treatise, "Waiting on God". You can find my reasons for this journey at this link.
Psalm 106:13 - But they soon forgot his works;
they did not wait for his counsel.
From Andrew Murray: "This is said of the sin of God's people in the wilderness. He had wonderfully redeemed them, and was prepared as wonderfully to supply their every need. But, when the time came, "they waited not for his counsel." They thought not that the Almighty God was their Leader and Provider; they asked not what His plans might be. They simply thought the thoughts of their own heart, and tempted and provoked God by their unbelief. 'They waited not for his counsel.'"
I am currently read through the whole of the Bible. Currently, I am in the Book of Numbers, and it is amazing to me how many times Israel turned their backs on God. Over, and over, and over.
The great point that Andrew Murray would have us learn here, is that perhaps our greatest temptation to turn away from God, is right after we have seen his blessing.
From Andrew Murray: "The great danger in all such assemblies [church gatherings] is that in our consciousness of having our Bible, and our past experience of God's leading, and our sound creed, and our honest wish to do God's will, we trust in these, and do not realize that with every step we need and may have a heavenly guidance."
How true is that!
When I am in a period of God's great blessing, it has been my habit to certainly be thankful, but then to press on with my own steam. How much wiser to remain in constant contact with the Father, and perhaps see even greater blessing, and/or results.
It is as though we innately tell God, "I only need you when I can't do something myself", thereby making him more like Santa Claus, then our heavenly Father.
How sad that must make our Father.
