32. They angered him also at the waters of strife. Will they never have done? The scene changes, but the sin continues.
Aforetime they had mutinied about water when prayer would soon have turned the
desert into a standing pool, but now they do it again after their former
experience of the divine goodness. This made the sin a double, indeed a
sevenfold offense, and caused the anger of the Lord to be the more intense. So that it went ill with Moses for their sakes. Moses was at last wearied out,
and began to grow angry with them, and utterly hopeless of their ever
improving; can we wonder at it, for he was man and not God? After forty years
bearing with them the meek man’s temper gave way, and he called them rebels,
and showed unhallowed anger; and therefore he was not permitted to enter the
land which he desired to inherit. Truly, he had a sight of the goodly country from
the top of Pisgah, but entrance was denied him, and thus it went ill with him.
It was their sin which angered him, but he had to bear the
consequences; however clear it may be that others are more guilty than
ourselves, we should always remember that this will not screen us, but
every man must bear his own burden.
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