In reading through Exodus I've recently gotten to the manna part. So many thoughts, but so jumbled and such, but the main thing I got out of the story this time, seems to be echoing in various places.
The youth pastor at our church spoke this Sunday about counting on Him presently, NOW, not in a well, I've got plans and you'd better get on board with them God (please), or please let me know somehow you got this God, but in an everything, everything way....next bill, next meal, next breath.
The children of Israel were told to only gather enough manna for one day and to eat and not save any until morning. Some didn't do that, tried to get ahead and what they stockpiled went bad. This really hit me this time.
*Then the children of Israel did so and gathered, some more, some less. So when they measured it by omers, he who gathered much had nothing left over, and he who gathered little had no lack. Every man had gathered according to each one’s need. And Moses said, “Let no one leave any of it till morning.” Notwithstanding they did not heed Moses. But some of them left part of it until morning, and it bred worms and stank. And Moses was angry with them.
God seems to want us to lean on Him day by day, minute by minute, perhaps even second by second- total utter dependence.
Then He spoke a parable to them, saying: “The ground of a certain rich man yielded plentifully. And he thought within himself, saying, ‘What shall I do, since I have no room to store my crops?’ So he said, ‘I will do this: I will pull down my barns and build greater, and there I will store all my crops and my goods. And I will say to my soul, “Soul, you have many goods laid up for many years; take your ease; eat, drink, and be merry.”’ But God said to him, ‘Fool! This night your soul will be required of you; then whose will those things be which you have provided?’ from Luke 12
Another friend tells me to trust in all things, sit at His feet and learn and THEN, everything else. He said so Himself.
“And do not seek what you should eat or what you should drink, nor have an anxious mind. For all these things the nations of the world seek after, and your Father knows that you need these things. But seek the kingdom of God, and all these things shall be added to you-Luke 12
Manna, daily bread, the bread from Heaven, let us wait upon Him.
*added to clarify. The Israelites were not able to gather too much, but it was when they tried to save some back that it went bad.
