Stop being slaves.

Despite having left Egypt, the people of Israel continued to use a language typical of those who have a slave mentality: the complaint and the murmur.

After crossing the Red Sea with a wonderful miracle, the people of Israel were taken to the desert for three days and found no water to drink until they reached a certain source, but the water was bitter, so the people began to complain and murmur against Moses. Then Moses shouted to God and He gave him the solution by showing him a wood that when he threw it into the waters, they became sweet and all the people could drink.

Often we, as the people of Israel, instead of remembering the wonders that God has done in our lives, begin to complain, to become bitter and to lose faith in God believing that He has no solution. But of course not! God always has a solution before the problem arises in our lives.

Bitter experiences come into our lives, but they are part of God's guidance for us and for our benefit, so we should not allow bitterness to stop our spiritual growth, but to learn to forgive, move forward and see bitterness through of the cross, because only in this way will they soften.

Exodus 16: 1-3

The whole Israelite community set out from Elim and came to the Desert of Sin, which is between Elim and Sinai, on the fifteenth day of the second month after they had come out of Egypt. 2 In the desert the whole community grumbled against Moses and Aaron. 3 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.”

We can see that as soon as another obstacle appears during the trip, the Israelites return to complain and murmur against Moses and Aron, they even come to curse and lament Egypt (the place where they were slaves), since they had forgotten the benefits that the Lord gave them had given.

God hates murmuring and ingratitude. God took care of the people and they lacked nothing, despite going through adverse situations, but the people focused on the negative. The people did not see that God fed them at all times and that them clothes did not age. They were going through a process to be free, but they still longed for the past and slavery, so the people took many years in the desert.

Many times in our life situations that do not end occur and it is because God wants to free us from slavery, but we cling to that and in this way, we will be in a vicious circle, like the people of Israel, until we understand what God wants to do. in our lives and that is when we leave behind what we did in our old nature and stop longing for it.