They Soon Forgot His Works

The psalmist describes the generation of the Exodus in Ps 106.13. The people had seen the great deliverance from Egypt; they had experienced deliverance at the Red Sea; they drank water that came from a rock; every morning they woke up they picked up manna off of the ground, but as soon as they were in trouble or difficulty, they forgot everything.

We would like to think that we would be different than the generation of the Exodus, but we are them. We are prone to forget all that God has done for us in the past as soon as the present difficulties get too bad. As one commentator put it (EBC): "They readily gave in to impatience when he (God) did not anticipate their needs." Yep. That's us. That's me.