The life and trials of a growing Christian - Day Eighty Seven

When I got to work this morning, I really didn't want to be there. I wanted so badly to be in church where I need to be on Sunday mornings. Then I got to thinking about how I haven't gotten a pay raise in over three years and how one isn't in sight. I also got to thinking about how there isn't really much of a chance of me ever getting promoted either, I have to be a department manager in order to even think of being promoted and I'm a one man department and considered an assistant manager, so, in a nutshell, I'm stuck. Then I found myself throwing a one man pity party and worrying about money and bills and how we're going to make it. I started wishing that I had another "better" job and imagining how life would be if we just had a couple hundred more dollars a week.
But then I thought about the Israelites. While wondering in the desert, they complained about the manna that God provided them, that when they were in bondage in Egypt they had meat and all kinds of different vegetables to eat. I remembered that it angered the Lord and what He did.
Numbers 11:31 Now a wind went out from the Lord, and it brought quail from the sea and left them fluttering near the camp, about a days journey on this side and about a days journey on the other side, all around the camp, and about two cubits above the surface of the ground. (a cubit is a foot and a half so there were quail three feet deep) 11:33 But while the meat was still between their teeth, before it was chewed, the wrath of the Lord was aroused against the people, and the Lord struck the people with a very great plague.
God has blessed me with a job and I should be happy with the fact that I am working and haven't taken a decrease in pay as some other people have. I need not worry about and long for another job but trust that He will allow me to get a raise and or promotion or a new job in His time and not mine. Maybe I'm where I'm at for a totally different reason than what I think I'm there for, only God knows, but I know that if I complain and groan about what I have or don't have He might just give me quail.