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TRIAL NUMBER 6 - COMPLAINING Numbers 11:1 Now when the people complained, it displeased the Lord; for the Lord heard it, and His anger was aroused. So the fire of the Lord burned among them, and consumed some on the fringes of the camp. Then the people cried out to Moses, and when Moses prayed to the Lord, the fire was quenched. So he called the name of the place Taberah, because the fire of the Lord had burned among them. Now the mixed multitude that was among them had an excessive longing. And the people of Israel also wept again… Complaining comes from an excessive longing because of a sense of lack, a preoccupation with what we don’t have instead of what we do have. We are called to reflect the image of Jesus. 1Corinthians 15:49 And as we have borne the image of the man of dust, we shall also bear the image of the heavenly Man. (a complaining Jesus or a grateful Jesus? ) This is a fire of judgment. Old Testament judgment had finality about it. Saul was judged and taken out of the way and David replaced hi