If God is for me...

I was reading in my Bible the other day about the Isralites and thier time after leaving Egypt and the time before they came into the holy land which God promised them and I came across a side of God which I have never really noticed before. First a bit of back story, God told the Isralites to go and explore Canaan and then to go and take the land for thier own. But the Isralites just grumble and moan and winge constantaly about how hard it will be and that they'll never succeed. They even said that they would have been better of dying in the desert. These are the same Isalites who have seen God work a whole bunch of miricles both whilst they were in Egypt and also while they were in the wilderness. You would think that if there was a group of people around who would trust God then these would be it.
Eventually God stops giving them chances to trust Him and turns against them. He send them off into the wilderness for another 40 years and in the book of Numbers, ch14 verse34 actually says "you will know what it's like to have me against you". He also promises that any of them who had been complaining and not willing to trust him would die without reaching the promised land. How cold is that?!
It really opened my eyes to how we need to trust God, and if God gives us an opportunity we really need to take it and trust Him rather then winge about how hard it will be or that we would have been better off where we were. It also made me step back and realise just how awesome God is. I often think of God as only this all loving, forgiving being who is always looking out for me and who wants what's best for me. Whilst this is true for the most part I also need to remember that God is not a passive god. If you keep slapping God in the face you can't expect to get away without any reprocussions. Or if you look at it another way, you can't keep openly sining and expect God to be sitting in heaven, looking down on us and be all like "Opps! there goes Anthony, sining again. Oh well, I guess he'll learn one day". On the contralry, sin pisses God off, he hates it! If we don't try and change things ourself then he's going to step in and take some action.

Moral of the story, trust God and be careful what you ask for.