We are probably all complainers. It is as natural to human beings as breathing and sleeping. We experience something we don’t want, or we don’t get to have something we do want, and we complain. Not all complaints are evil; sometimes there are very good reasons to raise our voice and talk about what isn’t right. But the tendency is for our own judgment about ‘how things should be’ to replace true faith in our living God. Ultimately, we complain because we aren’t in charge and don’t have the power to make everything exactly how we think it should be. Not long after being delivered from Egyptian bondage, Israel starts a pattern of complaining… about God! In our story for this Sunday, we’ll see that God understood their tendency to complain, and invited them to trust Him more. Maybe when we complain, He’s inviting us to do the same!