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你还记得人们在新冠疫情期间所面临的资源短缺吗？在有些地方，几乎找不到酵母或面包。供应链中断，许多人很难获得他们生活的一些必需品。

以色列人在旷野缺粮，就向摩西、亚伦发怨言。但是人们的这种态度有一个问题。他们不信靠神，祂曾把他们从埃及的奴役中释放出来，显明了祂的大能大力。（参出 12-14）他们的贪求和对记忆的错解，使他们目光短浅，不快乐——他们开始抱怨说他们在埃及过得反而更好！

然而，神每天晚上赐下肉给他们，每天早晨将“从天上来的粮” 赐给他们。到了晚上，“有鹌鹑飞来，遮满了营”人们吃得很饱。到早晨，他们在地上找到小圆物，可以拿来吃，做成饼。他们叫作吗哪。但没过多久，人们又开始抱怨和发牢骚了。

当意识到我们经常重复同样的错误，这多么令人惭愧：我们把注意力放在我们认为能使我们快乐的事物上，而忽视了神每天倾注在我们生活中的美好。

Do you remember the shortages that people faced during the COVID-19 pandemic? In some areas, it seemed there was no yeast or bread to be found. Supply chains were interrupted, and it was difficult for many people to find some basic things that they needed.

The Israelites faced a scarcity of food in the desert, and they complained bitterly to Moses and Aaron. But there was a problem with the people's perspective. They didn't trust God, who had shown his great power by freeing them from slavery in Egypt (Exodus 12-14). Their cravings, and their confused memories, left them short-sighted and unhappy—and they began to say they were better off in Egypt!

Nevertheless, God provided for them by giving them meat every evening and "bread from heaven" every morning. That very evening, "quail came and covered the camp," and the people ate heartily. And in the morning they found flakes on the ground that they could eat and make into bread. They called it manna. But it wasn't long before the people were grumbling and complaining again.

How humbling it can be to realize that we often do the same: we get focused on something that we think we need in order to be happy, and we overlook the goodness that God is already pouring into our lives each day.