Numbers 11
Camp Kibroth Hattaavah
⁴The riff-raff among the people had a craving and soon they had the People of Israel whining, "Why can't we have meat? ⁵We ate fish in Egypt--and got it free!-to say nothing of the cucumbers and melons, the leeks and onions and garlic. ⁶But nothing tastes good out here; all we get is manna, manna, manna."

Numbers 11:4-6

Dissatisfaction comes when our attention shifts from what have to what we don’t have.  The people of Israel didn’t seem to notice what God was doing for them-setting them free, making them a nation, giving them new land-   because they were so wrapped up in what God wasn’t doing for them. They could think of nothing but the delicious Egyptian food  they had left behind. `Somehow they forgot that the brutal whip of Egyptian slavery was the cost of eating that food.  Before we judge the Israelites too harshly, it’s helpful to think about what occupies our attention most of the time.  Are we grateful for what God has given us, or are we always thinking about what we would like to have? We should not allow our unfulfilled desires to cause us to forget God’s gifts of life, food, health, work, and friends.