Good morning everyone and welcome back to another mornings with the masters who devote ourselves to the Lord daily with you. Good morning everyone. We are picking up with day three of our experiencing friendship with God Devotion on the Bible app.

There's a link to that in the description if you guys want to follow along.

And as always, I'm going to read the scripture that I'm also going to pick up with the Devo.

The scripture is Philippians chapter 2 verses 14 through through 16 and they say this

Do everything without complaining and arguing so that no one can criticize you live clean

innocent lives as children of God shining like bright lights in a world full of crooked and perverse people.

Hold firmly to the word of life.

Then on the day of Christ's return return I will be proud that I did not run

the race in vain and that my work was not useless. The devotional is titled

grumbling in the wilderness.

And it says this, although God was visible in the plagues

that shook Egypt and broke their shackles of slavery,

the Israelites of the exodus did not have a closeness to God as Moses did.

Thus when things got tough they grumbled.

Exodus says it would have been better to stay in Egypt, they said.

As weak and ungrateful as Israel seems, this bitter murmuring is relatable.

When life is tough, our soul will say something like, okay God, if you're not going to get me out of this, then I'm going to get myself out of it.

This is when we begin to ignore the Holy Spirit and begin leaning on our own intuition.

When grumbling turns into action, we cultivate a spiritual independence from the presence

that leads to dependence on other people and things.

Oh, Lord.

Anyone else feel that?

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