“The whole congregation of the people of Israel grumbled against Moses and Aaron in the wilderness, and the people of Israel said to them, “Would that we had died by the hand of the LORD in the land of Egypt, when we sat by the meat pots and ate bread to the full, for you have brought us out into this wilderness to kill this whole assembly with hunger.””

I would like to think that my faith isn’t tied up in my comfort. However as a fallen human I may be closer to the recently freed Hebrew who desires to set aside freedom for at the very least consistency. There was an urgency for them in their here and now survival. Yet, in Luke 3, a new urgency is declared have you heard it? The voice crying out in the wilderness? If you have heard that voice and felt the urgency it lifts, are you asking the question that it begs? John tells us a fire is coming, one that will consume the dead wood that is not bearing fruit in keeping with repentance. And as did the Jews, tax collectors, and soldiers, it may be time you ask the question, “What do we do?”.