Whispers of His Power – APRIL 16

Num. 20.5:  And wherefore have ye made us to come up out of Egypt, to bring us in unto this evil place? it is no place of seed, or of figs…

‘It is no place of figs’, so the poor grumblers said.  They were continually grumbling, and generally about food, which after all isn’t the most important thing in life.  We have an expression, ‘I don’t care a fig’, meaning, ‘I don’t care at all.  It’s not worth caring about’.  I have been making a list of figs, those little things not worth caring about and yet about which we are sometimes tempted to grumble.  Perhaps you have a few private figs of your own – if so you can add them, privately, to the list.

I’m not in the place I want to be.  I’m not doing the work I want to do.  I’m not with the particular friend with whom I wanted to be.  I don’t feel very fit.  I can’t help others much.  (We forget that it doesn’t matter that we can’t, if others can.)  My plans are so often interrupted.  I’m tired.  I don’t like this food.  Somebody said something about me.  I have all sorts of temptations.  Nobody knows how hard it is for me.  I can’t help feeling downhearted.

Figs, figs, figs – what will any one of these things matter a hundred years hence, or ten, or one?  Then what do they matter now?

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