Dear Family,
Today is Thursday, May 8, 2025. This is Day 5 of Week 4 in our Counting toward Pentecost. It is our 26th day of Counting.
Today, let us consider the fantastic miracle that occurred every day for 40 years as God fed Israel with bread from heaven. It was a supernatural intervention by God to feed a huge array of people. The manna appeared suddenly, continued to appear for the first 6 days out of every week for 40 years, and then abruptly stopped. Then, it would appear again the next day. There are certainly lessons the ancient Israelites were to learn.
Unlike God’s bread from heaven, the food we know about comes from the earth. And, everyone has to eat. We are dependent upon the earth for physical food. And, there are lessons God wants us to learn from that, also.
Psalm 104:14 He causeth the grass to grow for the cattle, and herb for the service of man: that he may bring forth food out of the earth;
Ecclesiastes 5:9 Moreover the profit of the earth is for all: the king himself is served by the field.
God set the laws in action that control all harvests. For millennia farmers had to study and understand what affected harvest yields like seed type and quality, timing for planting and harvesting, cycles of weather, signs of impending bad weather, insect attacks, etc.
For thousands of years, every harvest has had a great potential to remind food gatherers how dependent on God we really are. Today, our ways of farming and securing food have drastically changed how we obtain the food we eat, and therefore, it has also changed how we feel about our food. We have lost the direct and easy way to learn valuable lessons about life principles and about God the Great Giver.
God successfully fed ancient Israel with very special food they did not have to plant, protect, or worry over until harvest time. Yet, they missed their lessons. Let us not miss the lessons God wants us to receive every time we harvest, every time we eat.
Many Jews remind themselves at every meal about this great miracle of how our food comes directly from the earth. They bless the Lord saying; “Blessed art Thou O Lord, King of the universe, Who brings forth bread from the earth.”
May we realize God’s immense blessing every time we eat and Bless Him for each morsel of physical and spiritual food He provides. He will never fail to feed the righteous.
Psalm 37:25 I have been young, and now am old; yet have I not seen the righteous forsaken, nor his seed begging bread.
Ben Faulkner, Pastor
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