FBC Gridley

I am grateful for God’s prosperous blessing upon our country.

I am the most grateful that at least, America was established upon Godly principles and the Bible. I am so grateful that I have come to salvation in a country where the Gospel is preached frequently.

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It has been estimated that America has just 4.2% of the world's population, but 32% of the world's wealth. Indeed, no nation has been more blessed than we. We enjoy the greatest economy in the world.

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But in spite of that, we are probably the least appreciative of any people who have ever lived.

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Well, the children of Israel provide a good analogy to our situation. God had been very good to this special people by releasing them from bondage in Egypt. For 400 years, they had been slaves under Pharaoh, but God sent Moses to deliver them.

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He parted the Red Sea to enable them to escape. He provided manna from heaven every day. He gave them water from a rock. He guided them with a pillar of fire at night and a cloud by day. And he promised them a land flowing with milk and honey.

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Yet the Jews were terribly unappreciative and did little but complain constantly.

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In Numbers 11, we have an account of their gross ingratitude.

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Now the people complained about their hardships in the hearing of the Lord, and when he heard them his anger was aroused.   

Numbers 11:1a