This Week's Readings: 9 Then the LORD said to Joshua, "Today I have rolled away the reproach of Egypt from you." So the place has been called Gilgal to this day.
10 On the evening of the fourteenth day of the month, while camped at Gilgal on the plains of Jericho, the Israelites celebrated the Passover.
11 The day after the Passover, that very day, they ate some of the produce of the land: unleavened bread and roasted grain.
12 The manna stopped the day after they ate this food from the land; there was no longer any manna for the Israelites, but that year they ate of the produce of Canaan.
40 years of wandering in the wilderness. That's how long the Israelites had journeyed from Egypt, toward this land that had been promised to them.
They had battled and suffered and struggled. They had certainly complained.
But all along the way, God had provided.
Manna. We learn in Exodus that the word, in Hebrew, meant "what is it?"
I think we ask just that, many times, when we're experiencing God's provision.
We just don't get it. We think that we earn, that we deserve, that we do it for ourselves.
But the manna always comes. God is faithful and will provide.
Finally, they did come to the land of Canaan, but even then they didn't provide for themselves. They ate from the abundance of that land, the gift that God sought to give them.
Keep an eye peeled for manna today. What is it? You'll know it when you see it.
Grace & Peace,
Adam
We should dream that the world would ever change
You're saying love is foolish to believe
'Cause there'll always be some crazy with an Army or a Knife
To wake you from your day dream, put the fear back in your life...
Look, if someone wrote a play just to glorify
What's stronger than hate, would they not arrange the stage
To look as if the hero came too late he's almost in defeat
It's looking like the Evil side will win, so on the Edge
Of every seat, from the moment that the whole thing begins
It is...
Love who makes the mortar
And it's love who stacked these stones
And it's love who made the stage here
Although it looks like we're alone
In this scene set in shadows
Like the night is here to stay
There is evil cast around us
But it's love that wrote the play...
For in this darkness love can show the way
So now the stage is set. Feel you own heart beating
In your chest. This life's not over yet.
so we get up on our feet and do our best. We play against the
Fear. We play against the reasons not to try
We're playing for the tears burning in the happy angel's eyes
For it's...
2 comments:
Manna today come in the form of the SOTH blog, just as I was choking down a protein shake, trying to figure out how I was going to pay the outrageous gas bill, tuition next week, and the JC Penney bill I thought was paid in full but someow overlooked -- manna. Today manna is trust and faith that He will provide. Faith will remove fear. Faith will remove fear. Faith will remove fear. -- aha, a manna mantra!
I love the manna mantra. Really, really good mantra.
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