God's Victories In Your Life

So, in this desert, they don’t see a God who can provide for them; they see a God who’s holding out on them. They cry out for food; they cry out for water. They complain because Moses has these meetings with God, and he takes too long. One time, it seems like Moses has been gone so long that he must be dead. Or, maybe Moses abandoned them. Everything’s always negative, everything’s always bad. They never see what God has done; they only ever see what God hasn’t done. God isn’t providing – he’s holding out on them. In their impatience, they build a golden calf and begin worshipping it. They forget the God who rescued them from Egypt while they begin worshipping a fake god that looked like the gods in Egypt. They imitated what they had been freed from. They forgot the victories … and God steps in and punishes a generation of Israelites. He sentences them to 40 years in this desert before they can get into the Promised Land. He says an entire generation is going to pass. Their forgetting led them to wandering. Guys, just really quick: when we forget the victories of God, when we forget what God has done in our life, it makes our lives look like aimless wandering. When we live in ignorance to the victories of God, it takes away from the meaning in our lives. It looks like wandering around, aimlessly, through a desert.