You may have heard of the time that God parted the Red Sea for Moses and the rest of his buddies (the entire nation of Israel) to cross. Right there at the end of the chapter in Exodus 14:31 it says, “when the Israelites saw the great power the LORD displayed against the Egyptians, the people feared the LORD and put their trust in Him and in Moses His servant.” Then they sing a big long song about how great God is. God performs another miracle and makes some bad water drinkable so they don’t all die of thirst. In Exodus 16:2-3 it says, “In the desert the whole community grumbled [...] The Israelites said to them, ‘If only we had died by the LORD’s hand in Egypt! There we sat around pots of meat and ate all the food we wanted, but you have brought us out into this desert to starve this entire assembly to death.’” I am sure that you are thinking, “Wha? How many miracles does it take? Yeah food is an issue, but you just watched God part an ocean so you could walk across on dry land. Why did God pick, what clearly must be, the dumbest group of people on the planet?” The Israelites, in fact, spend most of the rest of Exodus crying about this or that thing that is so much harder now. They were slaves in Egypt, but this living off of the land stuff is so hard. Oh wait, God is sending food directly from heaven to them each day, all they have to do is pick it up. They complain about the food. Do you really think God makes bad food?
What if God comes in a big way in this ministry and changes it up? It will be different, totally unlike anything before. We are so eager to make fun of the ancient Israelites, but we do the same thing when God tries to turn an object we know into something new. We changed the communion plates in my church back home. This caused more of an uproar than our last revival.
Not just here, but as Christians we ask God to do something big in the world around us. If He is going to do us the honor, the least we can do is not complain because it is new and different. I believe that we can wander around in the desert for years, or we can just believe that God is doing something amazing every time He gives us the chance to glorify Him. It doesn’t always have to look like it makes sense, but it does always have to glorify God.

~JCPunk