“And the children of Israel said unto them, Would to God we had died by the hand of the Lord in Egypt, when we sat by the flesh pots, and when we did eat bread to the full; for ye have brought us forth into this wilderness, to kill this whole assembly with hunger.” Exodus 16:3

Are you ever so influenced by a current crisis or difficulty that you can only see extreme negative, which leads to bad judgment and foolish thoughts? Does your perception of things sometimes lead you to misjudge reality? That’s what happened here with the people of Israel.

To be sure, the circumstances weren’t pleasant: they needed food! Not having food is a real problem. Your problems and difficulties may be real as well. But, in reading Exodus we know that Israel was foolish in such thinking. God had just miraculously delivered them from a centuries-long slavery in Egypt. He had destroyed their enemies. God doesn’t do things just to do them. He hadn’t brought them out of Egypt just to let them starve to death in the middle of nowhere!