Glorify the Lord. Let our light shine. Let others may be drawn to Him. I want to ask you this morning to take your Bibles and turn to Numbers chapter 11, the book of Numbers chapter 11. I failed to mention for those of you that went to our Fall Fest, there is a note. We already sent one thank you note. I sent one from me. And there is another note there, a card in the lobby there. If you would just go by, if you were at Fall Fest and could just put a little note saying, hey, thanks for a good time, appreciate your sacrifice for the lives. They let us borrow their farm, didn't charge us anything. And so we want to be thankful. I want to let them know we're thankful. Of course, I know they don't know you. They barely know me, right? They know Debbie. But to get a card with a bunch of people signing it, I think will be an encouragement to them. So we want to be thankful. So if you do that, we would appreciate that. If you do it sooner than later, that would be great as well. I don't want to get it there at Christmas. We'd like to try to send it in the next day or two, all right? So take a few minutes and go by there if you're at Fall Fest and sign that card. Numbers chapter 11, we've been in this chapter for a few weeks. We started verses 1 through 3, and we looked at, actually verse 1 really gives us a theme for these past three messages. And when the people complained, it displeased the Lord. And we looked at the fact that sometimes we can have a problem in our lives with complaining. And we're told, Paul admonished the church in Philippi to do all things without murmurings and disputings. And we looked a couple weeks ago, and really we're looking at three areas in which we find ourselves having a tendency to complain. In verses 1 through 3, we looked at complaining because of difficulty on the path. How many of you have ever had difficulty in your life before? All right. Yes, there we are. Difficulty is part of life, all right? Challenging circumstances, the water heater breaking, whatever. We all have difficulty on the path of life. And sometimes when we find ourselves facing difficulties, we can very quickly, how come this has happened to me of all times? And why me? And we have a tendency to complain. And then we looked at, last week, we complain sometimes because we're discontent with our provision. How many of you have ever, at some point in your life, wished you had something that you didn't have? All right, come on, some of you are sitting there very pious. Yes, sure. All right? We're human beings, right? And there are times where we think, hey, I need something. I don't have this. And sometimes when we don't have what we think we need, we can have a tendency to complain, right? Why can't I have this? So and so over there has this and it's not fair and you know we have a tendency to focus and we saw that with God's people here in Numbers 11 as God provided for them manna and they wanted meat. They wanted meat to eat and they complained with what God was providing for them. Now we turn our attention to verse number 10, and we see here our third message in this chapter, and that is there is a tendency for us to complain because we are disillusioned with people. Let me ask this question. How many of you ever been disappointed with another person at any time in your life? Ah, yeah, I know. People challenges can really be the biggest challenges that we face. We face difficulty in the path. We sometimes face a lack of provision, but some of the most challenging things that you'll have in your life are challenges with people and sometimes even Christian people. How many of you are a perfect Christian? Any perfect Christians? Oh, okay. How many of you have ever met a perfect Christian? Ever met a perfect? Yeah. How many of you ever been, I know we're getting real personal here, how many of you ever been carnal? Maybe just once. Yeah? Okay, yeah, yeah, yeah. How many of you know other people, maybe you Christians, that maybe just one time, you say maybe more than once, have been carnal, huh? Yeah. And you see, we sometimes can find ourselves in the interactions, people disappoint us, people are human beings. Moses has been with his people for some time. Now, think about this as we think about what Moses had to put up with with the people that God had him to lead. Well, as I think about it, number one, he had to put up with selfishness, didn't he? They were always about their comfort. Here we are, we need water. Here we are, we need food. Here we are, and we need this Red Sea parted. And he had to put up with, and we could take a lot of time here, but that's trying to get us thinking before we dive in here to the message. He had to put up with selfishness in the people's lives. Any of you know anybody that can be selfish once in a while? Yeah, I know. He had to put up with stubbornness in the people's lives. You think about this and there's much more we could say again. God gave commandments, they broke the commandments. What did God say about the manna? Hey, I'm gonna provide for you, take a day at a time. And there were people that took more than they were supposed to. They were stubborn, and what happened? It spoiled, and there were worms, and they had to face that. And there were people then on Saturday, or before the Sabbath, didn't take enough, take enough for two days, because on the Sabbath, it's not coming. Hey, where's my food? I don't have anything. He didn't listen. You were stubborn and so he had to put up with stubbornness in the people's lives that he was leading And if you know anybody that can be I know there's nobody in here people out there that can be stubborn at times Yeah, uh-huh. I'll think about this. He had to just put up with just just their sinfulness He goes up, he's with the Lord, and getting the Ten Commandments, and what do they do? God had told them already, you know, I'm your God, and I'm going to take care of you, and Moses, we don't know what happened. Aaron, we need a God to worship, and they make a calf, and it goes beyond just the calf, it goes into really immorality and just wicked sinfulness. Moses is leading these people. This is what a group of folks that God called Moses to lead and he's having To put up with this and it's interesting. That's why by the way when you look at his intercession in chapter 33 of Exodus You're really I don't know about you, but it impacts me to think he's not saying a Lord would you strike him down with lightning? yes, Lord God offers to start over and And he's saying, no, no, Lord, don't start over. Lord, your name's at stake here. If you have to blot me out, but Lord, would you forgive this people? All right, spiritual individual. But in this chapter, enough becomes enough for Moses. And as we look at Moses and his response to the people that God has had him to work with, a ministry is about people. If we are going to let our light so shine as we're supposed to, as was beautifully sung, glorify yourself in me, what others be seen in me, if we're going to make a difference, if we're going to be about God's business, we're going to be in the people business. And so sometimes in working with people, our thinking can get skewed. Our thinking can get skewed as people can be stubborn, as people can be sinful, as people can be selfish, as people can respond in a way that we don't think maybe they should respond. And that's the problem Moses is having in this particular chapter. His thinking is skewed because of what the people, we could say, have put him through. Essentially, here he's been. He's interceded for them. He's led them. And essentially, they're kind of turning on him. They're blaming Him, and enough's enough. And so we find ourselves in verse number 10 of Numbers 11, Moses also was displeased. And Moses said unto the Lord, now we're looking at the complaining of Moses because of Moses being disillusioned with the people and it skews his thinking and we'll see that as we look at these verses. Moses says in verse 11, Wherefore hast thou afflicted thy servant? And wherefore have I not found favor in thy sight, that thou layest the burden of all this people upon me? Have I conceived all this people? Have I begotten them that thou shouldst say unto me, Carry them in thy bosom as a nursing father? Beareth the suckling child unto the land which thou swearest unto their fathers? When should I have flesh to give unto all this people? For they weep unto me, saying, Give us flesh that we may eat. I am not able to bear this people alone, because it is too heavy for me. And if thou deal'st with me, kill me, I pray thee. out of thy hand, if I have found favor in thy sight, and let me see my wretchedness. We'll look at verse 16 in a little bit, if you look at how God provides for Moses. But I want to see, there are three areas, as I look at these verses, there are three areas that because of his disillusionment and his disappointment with people, there are three areas that I think his thinking got skewed in. And I think as we face disappointments with folks, I think the tendency can be the exact same for us. So number one, I want us to see that his thinking, in my perspective as I look at these scriptures, was skewed about God. His thinking was skewed about God. Look at verse number 11. And Moses said unto the Lord, Wherefore hast thou afflicted thy servant? Isn't it interesting? It's just like the devil to try to get us to think wrong about God. Our perception, how we think, the picture that we have of God is so vital, it is so important to our success as a Christian to our walk with the Lord. And if Satan can get us thinking things about God that aren't true, he's going to render us ineffective for the Lord. And what Moses says first as we look at his thinking is he says this, He says this, God, you are afflicting me. God, why are you afflicting me? Why are you causing trouble in my life? Sometimes we can think that, can't we? Satan would have us to think that God is out to get us. I think one of the biggest lies that young people believe is that if I surrender my life totally and completely to God, that God's gonna make my life miserable. God never has and never will. It's a lie. It's a lie of Satan to think that if you give and sell out completely to God that you're going to be deprived of things in life that you need. It is a lie. And here Moses is saying, hey God, you are afflicting me. We won't take much time to look at it, but if you go back to Exodus chapter number 6 and we look at the promises that God made to Moses as God was communicating with Moses concerning His call. And He said, I've heard the groaning. Actually, in chapter 6 and verse 2, when God's speaking to Moses, He said, I am the Lord. I appeared unto Abraham, unto Isaac, unto Jacob by the name of God Almighty. By my name Jehovah was I not known to them. I have established my covenant with them. And in Exodus chapter 6 and in the earlier chapters, God communicates His love to Moses. God communicates His faithfulness to Moses. But here Moses is in Numbers chapter 11, having dealt with the people and having heard their complaining and having had to deal with them over and over and over again, Moses gets disappointed, he gets disillusioned, and he excuses thinking about God, and he says to God, God, why are you afflicting me? Job went through the trial that he went through. What did his friends say? Curse God and die. Think wrong about God and get this thing over with. The Bible tells us in 1 Peter 4 and verse 12, Beloved, think it not strange concerning the fiery trial, which is to try you as though some strange thing happened unto you, but rejoice inasmuch as ye are partakers of Christ's suffering. But when His glory shall be revealed, ye may be glad also with exceeding joy." We can find many promises in the Word of God that go against God afflicting or God out to get us. Romans 8, 28, we know that God, all things work together for good to them that love God, to them that are called according to His purpose. But Moses, in fulfilling the assignment, he's had enough. God, you're afflicting me. But secondly, he says this, verse number 11, Wherefore hast thou afflicted thy servant? And wherefore have I not found favor in thy sight? Thou layest the burden of those people upon me. Look at that phrase in just a minute. The second thing he got skewed about God is, God, you don't love me. God, I have not found favor in Thy sight. God, You are mad at me. Can we say it this way? God, if You really loved me, then the assignment that You have given me with these people would be easier. Sometimes our thinking, as we deal with people, and really as we deal with circumstances and pain in our life as well, sometimes what Satan wants us to do is to try to think that God doesn't love you. That God is not out for your good. God always is out for our good, which is why it's so encouraging when you read what Job said. In Job, I think it's 13, in verse number 12, he said, Though He slay me, yet will I trust Him. I am going to believe right about God no matter how difficult the challenge is. In Moses' life, he allowed the challenge to skew his thinking about God. God, you haven't found favor. God, you don't love me. In Romans chapter 8, we read a great passage of Scripture. Nothing separates us from the love of God. Frederick Lehman's family moved to America from Germany when he was just four years old. Later in life, he recounted the joy that followed his conversion. Quote, one glad morning about 11 o'clock while walking up the country lane, skirted by a wild crab apple grove on the right, and a fence on the left with a white elm gate in the gap. Suddenly, he said, heaven left a cornucopia of glory descending on the 11-year-old lad. He said the weight of conviction was gone. Many years later, looking back on that wonderful day, took a break from his job in a California orchard and sitting on an empty lemon crate, he wrote these words, The love of God is greater far than tongue or pen can ever tell. It goes beyond the highest star and reaches to the lowest hell. The guilty pair bowed down with care. God gave His Son to win. His erring child He reconciled and pardoned from his sin. Oh, love of God! How rich and pure, how measureless and strong, it shall forevermore endure the saints' and angels' song." God loves us. He loves us perfectly. He loves us completely. And yet Moses, because of his interaction with the people, his thinking gets skewed about God. He says a third thing in verse 11, I've not found favor in thy sight that thou layest the burden of all this people upon me. God, you've overloaded me. God, you have given me more than I can handle. God, you have laid the burden of all these people on me. We know as we look at the Word of God, as we look at the whole of Scripture, that God never, God does never gives us more than we're able. Because why? Because His grace is sufficient. Because His strength is made perfect in our weakness. Sometimes situations that we face can seem impossible. They can seem more than we can enable. If you're a mom and you got three or four little ones at home, and I think at one point we had four under five or five under four. It wouldn't be five under four. We had twins. So four under five or five under six. I don't know. The ladies get it all straight. There was a lot. They're all little. And you look at that and you say, hey, Maybe it's a little more than we can handle. Humanly speaking, life is bigger than we are, isn't it? This situation wasn't, and we'll see this in just a minute when God intervenes, this situation wasn't anything to God. I mean, it was not a big deal to God. God can change, God can work, God wants to work. But for Moses, his thinking was that God was afflicting him. His thinking was that God had removed his hand of favor, that God didn't love him. His thinking was, God, you're overloading me. Why are you overloading me, Lord? You're supposed to be a good God, right? You're supposed to be a God that's not going to give me too much that I can bear. His thinking is skewed. No matter how hard our situation we find ourselves, we must think right about God. We need to think right about God. God has given us his word. But secondly, as we look at these scriptures here, Not only did his being disillusioned with the people that he had to work with, was his thinking skewed about God. And by the way, sometimes our thinking gets skewed about God in trying to work things out with people. We looked this morning at forgiveness. We looked this morning at dealing with conflict. And what happens is we sometimes think, well, I'm going to say this, and they're going to respond like this. You ever go to somebody and you say, hey, I want you to forgive me, I'm sorry, and they say this. Well, that's good. I'm sure glad you finally solved your problem, and I'm glad that you're finally getting this thing right, and I hope you'll never do it again. Now, I don't know about you, but if I get that response, the old flesh has a problem with that response. We think we're going to go to somebody and say, hey, I'm sorry, and that they're going to say, hey, me too. Let's hug and pray and move forward. But sometimes it doesn't happen like that. We can get a disillusion with God. God, it's supposed to work this way, and it's not. All right, secondly, where Moses gets skewed in his thinking is with regards to the problem at hand. Look at verse number 12 and 13. He says, Have I begotten them that thou shouldst say unto me, carry them in thy bosom as a nursing father, beareth the sucking child unto the land which thou swearest unto their fathers? When should I have flesh to give unto all this people? For they weep unto me saying, give us flesh that we may eat. And let me also read here verse 22. Shall the flocks and the herds be slain for them to suffice them? Or shall all the fish of the sea be gathered together for them to suffice them? Moses' thinking was skewed about the problem. We have a tendency to make problems bigger than they are. And here's what Moses was thinking. Number one, Moses was thinking that it was his job to change these people. They're complaining. They're whining. They're weeping unto him. I can almost see Moses, you think in his mind, you're always thinking, I wish he'd just stop. I wish he'd just quit complaining. Remember, they stood in the tent there, earlier we looked at, they stood in the tent and complained so that it was obvious that Moses could see them and that Moses could hear them. And I think at this point, Moses is tired of it all. Moses is tired of the complaining. But I think his perspective is that he was supposed to change these people. We need to remember that as we interact and work with people, yes, God wants us to do our part. God wants us to live as much as lieth in you, Romans chapter 12, live peaceably with all men, right? God tells us to let our light so shine before men that they might see our good works and glorify Father which is in heaven. But we need to remember that it is the gospel that is the power of God unto salvation. The issue of God's people in Numbers 11 and throughout was an issue with them and God. It was an issue with them and their relationship with the God that loved them. Moses was to obey God. He was to lead the people. He was to lead them in the path that God wanted them to lead. God wanted them to be in. It wasn't Moses' job to change the people. The gospel is the power of God unto salvation. It is the gospel that's going to help individuals. The Bible says the word of God is like a hammer that breaketh a rock into pieces. Why do we get up on a Sunday morning and say, take your Bibles? Why did Brother Brown and those this morning, he prayed in the morning service, Lord would you fill pastor with your spirit, would you fill us all with your spirit? Because it is the Spirit of God taking the truth of the Word of God that's going to make a difference in people's lives. Sometimes we like to try to control people. We can't control anybody. All we can do is move people as we get on our knees and we pray to God that God, by the power of His Spirit, will take the truth of the Word of God and invoke change in people's lives. You know what? Sometimes we can overwhelm ourselves thinking that it is our job to change. Think about your children. You know, the greatest thing we can do to have children that are going to serve God is to live it before them. Is to be, in our homes, an example of the Christ life. For Christ to flow through us. The wrath of men worketh not the righteousness of God. And then you think, hey, if I just yell and scream a little bit, this kid's going to move. And they will at 2, 3, 4, they'll be scared to death. But at 14, 15, they'll move too. They'll move right out of the house. You see, it is God that has to make change. And sometimes, as we interact and as we work with individuals, the same sun that melts the ice hardens the clay. And as we look at that, as the Word of God is being preached, yes, the Spirit of God will use that truth in people's hearts, and people will change, but some people will get hard. Some people will get stubborn. Some people will dig their heels in. But ultimately, God has to change an individual. Secondly, as he looks at the problem, not only do we see that, I think, from Moses' perspective, he thought he was supposed to change people, but he thought that it was his responsibility to meet their physical need. He says, verse 13, whence should I have flesh to give all this people for they weep unto me and say give us flesh that we may eat." So here Moses is thinking wrong about this problem again, thinking that it is his responsibility to meet this physical need. They were looking to Moses to meet a need in their life that only God could meet, that only God could work. I read this a number of years ago. I'm going to read it again for this perspective to help us to see from a human standpoint what would it take to get the supplies it took. The quartermaster general of the U.S. Army once was asked to figure everything out. According to him, Moses would have had to have 1,500 tons of food each day to feed such a multitude. To bring that every day would require two freight trains, each being a mile long. In the desert, they would need firewood to use in cooking the food. This would have taken 4,000 tons of wood and a few more freight trains each a mile long just for one day's cooking. And just remember, they were 40 years in transit. They would have had water too. If they had enough to drink and wash a few dishes, it would have taken 11 million gallons of water every day and a freight train with tank cars 1,800 miles long just to provide the water. Don't forget they crossed the Red Sea. If they went on a narrow path, double file, the line would have been 800 miles long. It would have required 35 days and nights for them to cross over. So there must have been a space three miles wide, which means they could walk 5,000 abreast and could cross over in one day or night. There was another problem. Every time they camped at the end of a day, a campground 2 thirds the size of the state of Rhode Island was needed, a total of 750 square miles. This is just space required for camping every night. You think about the needs it took. But yet, in this verse, you hear Moses saying, hey, they're looking at me to meet this need. Do you know when we look at the needs in people's lives around us, I don't know about you, but you watch the videos of the missionaries, and my heart says, man, I wish I could just adopt all those kids. I wish I could adopt a hundred of them, bring them home. Can you imagine that? Hey, honey, we have 100 new kids. Your heart goes out, right? People have needs all around us. People have physical needs. And sometimes we can get overwhelmed with just the physical needs in people's lives. But you know what? It's not my responsibility. As an individual, I have to do what I can and give the faith promise and do what we can to try to help meet needs. God lays somewhere in your heart. Hey, do what you can. But you know what? It is God's responsibility. to meet these physical needs. I've been in a hospital, and I go to hospitals quite often, and I wish I could just heal everybody. That's what I'm like to have been with Jesus and walk through a hospital and have him just empty that hospital out. Woo! Only Jesus can do that, huh? His thinking was skewed about God. His thinking was skewed about the problem. But number three, and we've alluded to this already, his thinking was skewed about himself. Look at verse number 14. as he's working with these people, he says this, I am not able to bear all this people alone because it is too much or too heavy for me. Here's his thinking about himself. I have no help. I am all alone. I have to try to solve this problem on my own. Is that true? No. No, no. It's not true at all. Have you ever felt lonely? Have you ever felt like, hey, I'm all by myself? I'm the only one. Nobody cares. Nobody understands. Is it true? No, it's not true. As we go a step further, not only did he feel like, hey, I have no help, but he felt like, I don't have any hope. Look at what he says in verse 15. And if thou deal thus with me, kill me, I pray thee, out of thy hand, if I have found favor in thy sight, and let me not see my wretchedness. He didn't have any hope. He said, you know what? This is an impossible situation. And if this is how it has to be, then I would rather die than to have to deal with this situation. You ever felt like that? You ever feel like, hey, I got such a big problem, I'd rather die. When it comes to sometimes working out interpersonal relationships or conflict, most people run from conflict. A lot of people say, you know what, I'd rather die than have to deal with conflict. I'd rather die than have to keep leading these people because they're stubborn and they're sinful and they're selfish. I'd rather die than have to do this." I mean, he really feels in a place where he's really hopeless. His thinking is skewed because people have disappointed him. He's been disillusioned. He thought they should respond in this way, and they didn't. And it causes him to say, something's up here. It causes him to think, hey, this problem is bigger. Hey, I can't handle this. If you think about his request to die, there are other Bible characters that we know that ask for the same thing. Jonah. But I want to look at 1 Kings 19 and then we'll come back and look at how God helps him and we'll be finished. I want you to see the exact same thing happens in Elijah's life in 1 Kings 19. If you're familiar with 1 Kings 18, 1 Kings 18 is where they had the showdown on Mount Carmel and Elijah calls down fire from heaven. We could say it's kind of a time really of God manifesting His power and a time of God working in a great way and God showing His glory. And let me say this, whenever God's at work, Satan's also trying to be at work. He's trying to thwart what God's doing and and here's a great first Kings 18 God's at work and look at what God's doing and we find the agent the man that God used in first Kings 19 sitting in a cave Jezebel says look That man is dead meat. We're going to get him and And and and he becomes a little bit disillusioned And we find him in verse number 9. The Bible says, actually let's look at verse 5. And the angel of the Lord came again the second time and touched him and said, Arise and eat, because the journey is too great for thee. And he arose and did eat and drink and went in the strength of that meat forty days and forty nights unto Horeb, the mount of God. Verse 9, And he came thither unto a cave and lodged there. He's sitting in a cave, ready to quit. Behold, the word of the Lord came unto him, and said unto him, What doest thou hear, Elijah? By the way, let me back up, so I have to show you verse 4. He went into a day's journey into wilderness, and came and sat on a juniper tree, and he requested for himself that he might die. Alright, so there's our connection there. Forgot to read that verse to you, because I want us to see what he says to God. Now I said, what are you doing in this cave? And he says, I've been very jealous for the Lord God of hosts, for the children of Israel have forsaken thy covenant, thrown down thine altars, and slain thy prophets with the sword. And I, even I, am left, and they seek my life to take it away. Woe is me. You know, God, we've been trying to serve you faithfully, and here I am. I'm the only guy left, and I'm hiding in this cave. He's not thinking right about God. He's not thinking right about the problem. He's not thinking right about himself. God tells him, and God deals with him, and he says the same thing. Go forth, stand upon a mount. God shows him his power. God manifests his presence in a still, small voice. He says the same thing to God in verse 14. And God says in verse 15, go on the way to Damascus, get back to work. Annoying Hazel to be king and talks about Jay you and then he says this in verse 18 I have left me 7,000 in Israel all the knees which have not bowed unto Baal and every mouth with has not kissed him You see we see in Elijah's life a similar request Why because he's disillusioned with really the circumstances really with people Jezebel's after me on this is too big. It's impossible Go back to Numbers 11 and let's look for just for a minute at what God does for Moses to help Moses in his situation. Verse 16. And I will come down and talk with thee there, and I will take of the Spirit which is upon thee, and will put it upon them, and they shall bear the burden of the people with thee, that thou bearest it not alone. And verse number 25, we see this fulfilled. The Lord came down in a cloud and spake unto him and took of the spirit that was upon him and gave it unto the 70 elders and it came to pass. And when the spirit rested upon them, they prophesied and did not cease. Number one, God provided support for Moses. He provided men that would stand with him. He provided men that would have the spirit of God upon them. He provided men that would speak with him. God provided for Moses, this quick, the support that he needed to continue leading folks forward. Number two, God not only supplied the support, but he provided a supply of quail, and we looked at that last week. Verse 18, he said, sanctify yourself. God's gonna give you flesh to eat. We see this, verse 31. It went forth the wind from the Lord and brought quails from the sea and let them fall by the camp, as it were, a day's journey. And if you were here last week, it was a ton of quail. God provided, provided the support and provided the supply to help Moses get his thinking back where it needs to be. Some of the biggest challenges you will face in your life are people challenges. Satan will try to do everything he can to get us to respond to people challenges in a less than biblical way. It starts right here. It starts in our thinking as we interact with people where we realize, this person disappointed me or this person didn't respond like I should. And we begin thinking in a way that's not biblical and it starts with him. God, what are you doing? It continues as we magnify the problem, and then we look at ourselves, and we think, hey, this isn't supposed to work this way. For Moses, he thought it would work a different way, and God deals with him. And then what happens? We again start complaining. And really what we're reading here is just an interaction that Moses had with the Lord, where Moses was complaining about what God had called him to do. May God help us. If you face difficulty, if you're going to face it this week, it's going to be next week, it's going to be the week after. May God help us to not complain. Uh-oh. We face times of need in our life. We all do. There's gonna be times in our lives where we think, hey, I should have something. I've prayed about it. It hasn't come yet. Hey, if we're supposed to have it, it'll come. God's not. God daily loads us with benefit. No good thing will He withhold from them that walk uprightly. How many of you wished you won the Publisher's Clearinghouse Friday? Yeah, I didn't win either. I know. You know why I didn't win? Because God knew I didn't need to win. You with me? Yeah, there are things in our lives, times of need. May God free us from complaining. And then, as we find ourselves interacting with people and disappointed, we find ourselves disillusioned, this person should have said and did and this and that. May God free us from complaining about individuals. May God help us to be what He wants us to be. Lord, we love you this morning.