Dear Family,
Today is Wednesday, May 7, 2025. This is Day 4 of Week 4 in our Counting toward Pentecost. It is our 25th day of Counting.
Considering all the miraculous events of Israel’s past month, Moses made a very interesting statement to Israel in Exodus 16:6. To answer their murmuring and complaining, Moses told them God was going to make them know “that the LORD hath brought you out from the land of Egypt.” Did they really not understand that they had ONLY been released from Egyptian bondage by the supernatural intervention of the LORD? Maybe not.
It is an interesting quirk of human nature that sometimes we will give credit to anything EXCEPT God for something God has done. Some people will look for any OTHER possible explanation. And, then ONLY if they can not explain it in ANY OTHER WAY will they acknowledge that God has intervened.
It is also an interesting quirk of human nature to realize that sometimes people are far more ready to credit hardship, evil, or other negative things to God than they are to give Him credit for the good they experience. Ancient Israel did that also. Notice in Exodus 16 in the middle of verse 3, they allowed themselves to think of God as One Who would kill them. They said, “…Would to God we had died by the hand of the LORD in the land of Egypt…”
Now, notice an interesting thing (not a “quirk” by any stretch of the imagination) about God. God did not answer Israel’s griping and complaining with severe discipline. Instead, He was more generous than they could have imagined.
Exodus 16:10-13 (10) And it came to pass, as Aaron spake unto the whole congregation of the children of Israel, that they looked toward the wilderness, and, behold, the glory of the LORD appeared in the cloud. (11) And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying; (12) I have heard the murmurings of the children of Israel: speak unto them, saying; At even ye shall eat flesh, and in the morning ye shall be filled with bread; and ye shall know that I am the LORD your God. (13) And it came to pass, that at even the quails came up, and covered the camp: and in the morning the dew lay round about the host.
Did you catch that? God gave Israel “bread” for the mornings AND “flesh” in the evenings. Yes, God sent bread for the morning and quail in the evening for Israel to eat. In the face of criticism, God was amazingly generous! He is truly THAT AWESOME!
May God bless us with the heart to give Him all the credit He is due. Let us acknowledge with great thanksgiving that God is GOOD in the ultimate sense of the word!
Ben Faulkner, Pastor
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