Please meditate on 1 Kings 19:4-8, Ephesians 4:30-5:2, John 6:41-51.
In these scriptures, we hear about bread-food. We hear at least in the Gospel, about people who are grumbling, actually the word used today is murmuring, as in, “The people started to murmur in protest because He claimed, “I am the bread that came down from Heaven.”
Jesus confronts the murmuring head-on. He says, “Stop your murmuring.”
Jesus is a lot like us, isn’t he? He doesn’t like grumbling, murmuring or whining any more than we do. All three of these words are onomatopoetic (good to remember this word for crossword puzzles). The word sounds like the meaning of the word. Grumble, grumble, grumble. Mur-mur-mur-mur-mur. Whiiinne, whiinne, whiinne.
All very unpleasant sounds, aren’t they?
Is that any way to behave toward God? Making unpleasant sounds? You don’t do that, do you?