Today, I am reading and commenting on Exodus 16-18.

The account of manna recorded here is a great illustration of God using His power to provide for our needs.  For five days out of seven the people collected enough manna for their household, and no more.  If they shorted themselves in order to save some for the next day, it went bad by morning.  Then on the sixth day, they collected enough for two days, AND when they kept the extra overnight, it was still good in the morning.  Finally, on the seventh day, there was no manna to collect.  The Israelites had this daily reminder of both God’s power and His care for them for the entire time they were in the wilderness.  Yet, just a short time after they started collecting manna, they were afraid they were convinced that they would die of thirst.   We often do the same thing.  We live lives where we experience God’s care for our well-being everyday.  Yet when some new trouble over takes us, we panic and fear that this time God will not provide.  Let us strive to keep the ways in which God has provided for us, and is providing for us in the forefront of our minds, so that our faith will remain strong in the face of the next problem which comes our way.

I use the daily Bible reading schedule from “The Bible.net” for my daily Bible reading.