Tuesday, February 28, 2017

Craving for What?



Numbers 11:34 The place was named Kibroth Hattuvah [“Graves of Craving”] because there they buried people who had craved other food.

I would hate to think that I would be remembered after my burial as one who “craved after food,” one whose main reason to be remembered was something so puny as what I wanted to eat, rather than being remembered for, say, something I did or something I was as a person.  These Israelites actually had not only craved meat (v.4-6) but all the food they had eaten as slaves, not even free men.  How easily I forget the blessing of my present circumstances when faced with the “delights” of my previous slavery!  “The heart is deceitful above all things…”

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