Numbers 11:4 – The rabble with them began to crave other food, and again the Israelites started wailing and said, “If only we had meat to eat! – New International Version

One of the greatest sources of dissatisfaction in married life is the tendency to compare ourselves with others and create benchmarks on social status based on accumulation of material goods. In the common English idiom, most people want to “Keep up with the Joneses”, and will strive to attain their ideal in terms of social status.

This tendency, while it can in a positive sense instill values of hard work; it can also create an insatiable GREED, which then becomes a big social problem. Greed is behind social vices of the world like corruption, and plundering of public resources. Greed will lead people to do anything to accumulate wealth and social status, even kill!

As the Israelites journeyed through the wilderness after their escape from Egypt, God provided them with enough food in the form of Manna, but they craved for meat and became riotous. God’s response was to bring them Quail, but not without punishing the greedy by sending a plague on those that instigated this riot about meat.

In your ambitious pursuit for success in life, savour and enjoy each step of the journey regardless of where you feel you have reached on the road to success. Be content, and grateful for however much or little God has so far provided.

1 Timothy 6:6-11 “But godliness with contentment is great gain. For we brought nothing into the world, and we can take nothing out of it.  But if we have food and clothing, we will be content with that.  Those who want to get rich fall into temptation and a trap and into many foolish and harmful desires that plunge people into ruin and destruction. For the love of money is a root of all kinds of evil. Some people, eager for money, have wandered from the faith and pierced themselves with many griefs. But you, man of God, flee from all this, and pursue righteousness, godliness, faith, love, endurance and gentleness. – New International Version