“When we have set out to walk in His ways, we are ready, at the earliest appearance of pressure or trial, to murmur and rebel. Indeed there is nothing in which we so signally fail as in the cultivation of a confiding and thankful spirit. Ten thousand mercies are forgotten in the presence of a single trifling privation. We have been frankly forgiven all our sins. ‘accepted in the Beloved,’ made heirs of God and joint heirs with Christ, the expectants of eternal glory, and, in addition to all, our path through the desert is strewn with countless mercies; and yet let but a cloud the size of a man's hand appear on the horizon, and we at once forget the rich mercies of the past in view of this single cloud, which, after all may only ‘break in blessings upon our head.’” (C.H Mackintosh, Notes on the Pentateuch, p.212-213)