Provision Plus (Ex 16/ 66)

Today my daughter saw the culmination of weeks of hard work.
The walkathon she organised raised around $1000 to go towards Empart's work in India.
When she first started the goal was to have fun and raise $125.
She amazes me with her care for others.
She amazes me with her dedication in seeing this happen.
Proud dad moments galore today.
Even the odd tear.
To go with my odd head.
Well done Brooke.

Exodus 16
When you walk into the wilderness of Sin, is it obvious?
I wonder how it got the name.
Do you get there and then just shudder?
"Crikey! We're in the wilderness of Sin. Lock the car."

God does His providing thing again despite the "murmuring".
Patient fellow is God.
Just an observation.

Now I know how great a freshly baked loaf of bread tastes. There is nothing quite like that, especially if home baked. So how good would manna be?
Walking out of the Central Plateau, we were never far from falling snow.
The really, really amazing bits though, was when the wind died to nothing and the flakes seemed to float.
That's what I reckon manna fell like.
Probably warmer and drier though.
The Israelites would have been glad it didn't fall in loaves I bet.
Did it fall?
It just appears after the dew.
Oh well, just ignore the snow analogy.

To me the key is, God gave the Israelites enough to sustain them, basic but life giving. But just prior to the first "crop" of manna, He sent quail.
Meat.
Lots of meat.
The manna was the bonus that lasted 40 years.
He could have done one or the other.
The people certainly seemed to deserve little with their complaining.
But God did one and then the other.
And it was beyond good.
It was begood.

There is a little thought that pops in when you see what happens when too much was taken than what was needed. But I want to finish on the positive note.

So +