133 Patience Pushed Again. (Num 16)

Do you ever get those moments when you are so fixed on doing something, that when you can't, you can't see what else you could do?
I often get so set in my way that the blinkers come out and I can see nothing else.
That's ok, because when it works out, it REALLY works out.
I get heaps done well and quickly.
But when something unavoidable like, say, long, continuous, heavy rain happens, I fall in a heap of stubborn nothingness.
"I want to do that. But I can't. So I can't do anything else. Obviously!"
The section in my brain that is rational.
The tiny bit in the dark corner up the back.
Well, it just digs a hole through my cranium with a spoon and does a runner.
I sort of mope around with a dull smile.
I think I nod a lot as well.
But not much else gets done.
I must try to incorporate more focus on option creating, I think.
Oops. Got to go. I hear a knocking and it must be my rational thingy trying to get back in.
I might need him tomorrow.
So Ta-ra.

Numbers 16
There will always be people who profess they have heard from God.
There will be some who get things awfully close to something that sounds like they may have heard from God.
That's fine if they keep things to themselves.
But often they don't.
What's the point of hearing from God if you don't have any power to go with it?
So they try and get as many to follow as possible.
What happens if you hear this, without good understanding of God's word?
What if you don't know enough to know what you're hearing is off the mark?
What happens if you believe something that contradicts a leader, say like Moses, who HAS heard from God, HAS demonstrated his relationship with God, DOES continue to walk closely with God AND continues to hear from God?
Well, there's a chance you will suffer badly.

Korah, Dathan, and Abiram got swallowed up by the ground.
They paid for their arrogance, self importance and pride.
Not only them, but all their families.
The people, who had already seen God's patience tested to its end and were headed to the wilderness as a consequence, had quickly jumped behind the ringleaders.
It's here we can see God's real grace in handling the Israelites to this point.
How does walking in the desert for 40 years compare to getting swallowed by a hole miraculously appearing or to death by plague?
The people shouldn't have complained again.
God and Moses had proven their love for the people.
They show it again.
Everything planned and carried out showed the love of God for His displaced people and their restoration to a land He had promised them.
The reason they had not entered was not Moses's fault.
Not God's fault.
But again, they needed to learn the hard way.
And again, God stepped in showed grace.
But some paid the price for the complaints, the rebellion.
We need to know God.
We need to know Him so that we can sense things that are not God.
Then, we can help others.
We can help ourselves.