And the children of Israel said unto them, Would to God we
had died by the hand of the Lord in the land of Egypt, when we sat by the flesh
pots, and when we did eat bread to the full; for ye have brought us forth into
this wilderness, to kill this whole assembly with hunger.
Exodus 16:3
We often feel entitled to certain things forgetting that no
one came to this world with anything. There is entitlement mentality in the
church, in the office, in the house, in the nation and everywhere. As babies we
all demonstrated that mentality by crying for everything and that was our right
but as we grow and mature, we need to outgrow that mentality. It is not a good
sign to see grown adults whining and pouting over every issue without proffering
solutions.
The Israelites had just been freed from slavery and were
moving to their own land but they were still complaining and thinking about the
food that they enjoyed albeit in slavery and oppression. They thought they were
entitled to free food! They spoke about their misery to their leaders Moses and
Aaron. God did not give them the land freely even though they felt entitled to
it. Overcome the entitlement mentality
today.
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