How soon and how often those who call themselves people of
God forget, or fail to remember what a mighty God we serve; that the God on the
mountain is still God in the valley; that the God of the good time is still God
in the bad time?
The
children of Israel murmured against Moses and at God’s command He turned bitter
water into sweet water; He provided shade under which they could rest; and at
last they took their journey from Elim and arrived at the wilderness of Sin
which is midway between Elim and Sinai, which they did on the fifteenth day of
the second month after they departed out of Egypt.
So now they
are hungry. Did they say to Moses,
“please Moses, talk to God our Father our Redeemer our Deliverer and tell Him
we need food? No they did not. They
murmured as was their wont. Not only did they complain against Moses and Aaron;
but they had the ingratitude to tell Moses that they wished they had been left
alone to die in Egypt, when they sat by the flesh pots and had their fill with
bread, rather that to have brought into the wilderness to die of hunger.
God did not
even bother to remind them of their Redemption Song or their oath to serve Him
through all their generations. God
simply responded by raining down from heaven, bread that was not made with
hands. It was called manna or angel food
God send down to his murmuring and ungrateful children.
And
God told Moses, I will send them bread every day, for their food each day. Six days shall I send them bread every day
for six days; and on the sixth day, they shall take in enough for the seventh
day. I am dealing with them in this way,
the Lord told Moses, that they may know I am their provider and not they
themselves.” BRAGADAYJAH 205
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