“The Healthy Heart Diet” Lessons from the Wilderness Numbers 11

After Moses led the children of Israel out of Egypt, they spent 40 years in the wilderness before finally entering the Promised Land. The Book of Numbers tells the story of most of those 40 years spent wandering. One of the stories reveals some- thing that runs deep in all of us, our propensity to complain. It seems simply a part of our human nature, but todays story points to the dangers that patterns of complaining present to our faith and our emotional health.