Don’t forget also that Abraham believed and trusted God and God counted it as righteousness. His trust is why God declared him righteous. This was before Abraham did anything else. And we are told to examine ourselves to see if we are really and truly fully in trust. And we are given the example of Israel trusting God to save them through the sea but then not continuing in that trust when it came to food and water. They worried instead that God might not provide these things or might let them die of thirst.
A current day example and parallel would be worrying over money, how we will pay the rent, what we will do when we get old and can no longer work if we don’t have at least a million dollars in the bank. Actually, that last one is a parallel to the manna which they insisted on gathering more than He said to.
And He could not do many miracles there because of their lack of trust.
They turned back from their trust and tempted God, and limited the Holy One of Israel.
They remembered not his hand, nor the day when he delivered them from the enemy."
Anyone who puts his hand to the plow, to dig up his rocky, untrusting places and then turns back from trust is not fit for the kingdom.
we should examine ourselves as to trust because if you trust God to be saved alive but then worry about everything after that, it is tempting Him to get angry.
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