Whining like a spoilt brat

So, in 'Your Daily Walk,' the Israelites are finally at the edge of the Promised Land and Moses is recapping for the people all that has happened since their departure from slavery in Egypt. Because of their disbelief of God's providence when they were sent to survey the land, the entire generation was to be wiped out in the 40 years of detour wilderness.

What stroke a chord in me is how Moses recalls how God actively protects his people.

Deuteronomy 1: 29 - 34

²⁶ But you were unwilling to go up; you rebelled against the command of the Lord your God. ²⁷ You grumbled in your tents and said, “The Lord hates us; so he brought us out of Egypt to deliver us into the hands of the Amorites to destroy us. ²⁸ Where can we go? Our brothers have made our hearts melt in fear. They say, ‘The people are stronger and taller than we are; the cities are large, with walls up to the sky. We even saw the Anakites there.’”
²⁹ Then I said to you, “Do not be terrified; do not be afraid of them. ³⁰ The Lord your God, who is going before you, will fight for you, as he did for you in Egypt, before your very eyes, ³¹ and in the wilderness. There you saw how the Lord your God carried you, as a father carries his son, all the way you went until you reached this place.”
³² In spite of this, you did not trust in the Lord your God, ³³ who went ahead of you on your journey, in fire by night and in a cloud by day, to search out places for you to camp and to show you the way you should go.
³⁴ When the Lord heard what you said, he was angry and solemnly swore: ³⁵ “No one from this evil generation shall see the good land I swore to give your ancestors, ³⁶ except Caleb son of Jephunneh. He will see it, and I will give him and his descendants the land he set his feet on, because he followed the Lord wholeheartedly.”

I always had this perception that God the Almighty need not break a sweat or actively work because being omnipotent and omniscient, he can simply will things into being or out of being. Our role therefore as followers and intercessors is to pray hard and hope to move God into action.

So to read that God "is going before you, will fight for you...carried you, as a father carries his son...went ahead of you... to search out places for you" puts God in a different light - God is a God who vexes over us and has never been passive about guiding his children. In fact, God has worked actively to put in place the ground work as a forerunner just to provide for us. 

This I'll bear in mind before I whine again like a spoilt brat about how pitiful the Christian Walk can be or how remote and passive God seems.