"The Egyptians made the Israelites their slaves. They appointed brutal slave drivers over them. ... The Egyptians worked the people of Israel without mercy. ... Pharaoh gave this order to all his people: “Throw every newborn Hebrew boy into the Nile River. But you may let the girls live.” (Exodus 1.11,13,22 NLT)

"Years passed, and the king of Egypt died. But the Israelites continued to groan under their burden of slavery. They cried out for help, and their cry rose up to God. God heard their groaning." (Exodus 2.23,24 NLT)

And God chose Moses to take them out of their slavery in Egypt, but during the exodus, the Israelites kept reminiscing about Egypt.

"Why did you bring us out here to die in the wilderness? Weren’t there enough graves for us in Egypt? What have you done to us? Why did you make us leave Egypt?" (Exodus 14.11 NLT)

"If only the Lord had killed us back in Egypt,” they moaned. “There we sat around pots filled with meat and ate all the bread we wanted. But now you have brought us into this wilderness to starve us all to death." (Exodus 16.3 NLT)

"Why did you bring us out of Egypt? Are you trying to kill us, our children, and our livestock with thirst?" (Exodus 17.3 NLT)

Most of us are easily drawn back to reminisce about the past. "Oh we had it good when ..." or "How would it turn out if I had / had not ..." or something like that.

Hopefully we do not complain like the Israelites above, but in essence, we suffer the same ailment. We frequently doubt that our present path is the best of every possible paths that we could have chosen.

And we wonder why God has led us down this path.

We cannot fully understand God's thoughts. But we can totally and absolutely trust him.