Children of the promised land

I opened my bible to the book of Exodus the other day and read about how God in the old testament,saw and heard the cries of his people while they toiled and suffered working as slaves at the hands of the Egyptians. I read on about how God performed extraordinary miracles, signs and wonders in order to get his people out of the misery they were trapped in. I read about how God parted the red sea and the Israelites walked between an ocean towards freedom. How he gave them food to eat every single day faithfully for the 40 years they were in the wilderness. I loved how God provided a cloud for them to follow as a guide during the day and fire to use at night as source of heat and light.
These people lacked nothing.
God's love and provision for them never wavered.

But what captured me and left me speechless about this beautiful story about the Israelites was not only the magnitude and power that our God has but it was the children of Israel and their attitude towards God. Even after all he had seen them through, after all he had done for them,shown them. He fed and clothed them protected and fought for them. And yet, they always found something to complain about!
They complained about the food, the journey, Moses,meat, water, the heat and even God himself!
They had the nerve,liver,guts and gore to create and worship other gods in front of God himself!! I thought NO WAY!
There must be a section in the bible in fine print that would read "just kidding lol gotcha!"
But it was real, this is what the Israelites did.

There was even a time I read that they said they would have rather preferred to be slaves who ate meat everyday in Egypt than to be free and in the Wilderness with God.
When reading this I thought that these people where mad,insane,sick and needed some holy water splashed,washed,dunked all over them.
They needed emergency exorcism A.S.A.P!

But, when my jaw eventually reconnected with the rest of my face and I got over my anger towards the abomination (pronounced in a Nigerian accent) I read,God revealed to me
that every now and then we (you and me) are just like the Israelites too.
We ask God for employment and we get it, instead of saying thank you in relief and gratitude...we dig and cook up something to complain, moan, groan and whine about. If it's not the pay, it's the boss, if it's not the hours, it's the coffee.
If it's not the rules, it's the people.
Nothing is good enough for us. We have created idols in fashion, sex, money and in each other so much so we stop believing in God.
We stopped calling him by name and say "divine power" or "something up there". Or ignore him altogether in exchange for luck, fate, destiny or "the universe".

As soon as you ask God for something and he provides just what you asked for, thank him, stop complaining,and excel greatly at what you do wherever you do it. It is then that you will see
the promised land.