Quail Trouble

"Now a wind went out from the Lord and drove quail in from the sea. It scattered them up to two cubits deep all around the camp, as far as a day’s walk in any direction. All that day and night and all the next day the people went out and gathered quail. No one gathered less than ten homers. Then they spread them out all around the camp. But while the meat was still between their teeth and before it could be consumed, the anger of the Lord burned against the people, and he struck them with a severe plague." Numbers 11:31-33

I always wondered why God was so angry towards the Israelites. Was it not natural to want to eat meat? They had been eating manna three times a day. They were eating a one menu meal for days. For the longest time, God seemed cruel to me.

However, it is quite amazing how reading the same passage year and again displays more insight towards it. Upon meeting the scripture again, I realized that God probably would have provided the Israelites with any kinds of delicacies if they had asked. The Israelites, by complaining, were being unfaithful towards God's endless power. They were ungrateful towards their saving grace. It was more so their negligence and honor to God than to some desire for meat. That only came as a consequence of their decreasing faith. 

Only if I would ask would I have all that God had designed for me to enjoy.