14th.: Identify & List Your Concerns, Part 2
Moses led off his complaints with (Num. 11:11-12):
1) Why have you afflicted thy servant?
2) And why have I not found favor in thy sight that thou lays the burden of all this people upon me?
3) Have I conceived all this people?
4) Have I begotten them that thou should say unto me, ‘Carry them in thy bosom, as a nursing father bears the sucking child, unto the land which thou sware unto their fathers?’
Moses would have understood if the complainers were his own off-spring.
But he was having to deal with all the other families as well.
Moses had equated having ‘favor with God’ as meriting a little bit easier life.
Note that God did not condemn Moses for making these complaints.
Neither did God address these particular points.
Likewise, God does not need to address all of our complaints.
Sometimes he just lets us ‘vent’.
“Take no heed unto all words that are spoken,” (Eccl. 7:21a)