“Why did you make us leave Egypt? To bring us to this terrible place without seed, figs, grapevines, pomegranates, or even water to drink?”
No, God didn't bring you to this place He is asking you to travel through this place. God never brings us to a place of suffering, but it might be on the way to the place He wants us to go. His plan all along was to take them to a land with milk and honey, their spies had seen the place and testified of its goodness. So, why even debate that they are in the place that God is bringing them?
Because we are selfish and impatient. We need our comfort and ease to be at our beck and call, and if it's not we complain or murmur about the situation God has brought us TO. But He hasn't! It's not a destination, it's a stop along the way. When we drive to Disneyland you pass through hundreds of miles along the way of desert and wasteland. And if you stopped you could rightly say, "This isn't Disneyland, why did you bring us here? This place doesn't have any rides or Mickey Mouse." And we would say, "We're not there yet, this is just a stop along the way."
Are you letting God take you through or are you complaining about some stop along the way?
Are we there yet?
Pastor Brent