Remembering The Wrong Things

Bible Reading:  Numbers 11:1-9                    

Key Verse: Verse 5 – ““We remember the fish, which we did eat in Egypt freely; the cucumbers, and the melons, and the leeks, and the onions, and the garlick:”

Key Words: We remember the fish

 I’ve always marveled at this particular portion of Scripture.  Israel remembers the fish, cucumbers, the melons, leeks, onions, and even the garlic.  Now the reason I marvel is that while they remembered the fish, they failed to remember God.  It was God Who brought the plague, it was God Who brought the freedom from bondage, and it was God Who saw them across the Red Sea, and it was God Who eliminated the enemy; but they failed to remember God.  As a result, the main thing (God) failed to remain the main thing.

When I lived in Atlanta, several years ago, I noticed in the Yellow Pages, in the listing of restaurants, an entry for a place called Church of God Grill.  The peculiar name aroused my curiosity, and I dialed the number.  A man answered with a cheery, “Hello! Church of God Grill!”  I asked how his restaurant had been given such an unusual name, and he told me: “Well, we had a little mission down here, and we started selling chicken dinners after church on Sunday to help pay the bills.  Well, people liked the chicken, and we did such good business that eventually we cut back on the church services.  After a while we just closed down the church altogether and kept on serving the chicken dinners.  We kept the name that we started with, and that’s Church of God Grill.”  They remembered the wrong thing!!

                                                                                             Dr. Mike Rouse

What to do:

      ✞Keep the main thing the main thing – and Jesus is the Main thing!