After reading these two chapters,
check this out!
Everyone knows that for a long
road trip, you need to pack supplies, all kinds of supplies; and if you have
little children your supplies list can and will multiply very quickly. Otherwise you’ll have to plan to stop by a
store to buy whatever you might need when you needed, and this will make the
trip even longer, and most likely will cost you more as well.
Back in Bible times, they HAD to
pack enough supplies for any trip for there were NO chances to find a “Food-Mart”
down the road. And just imagine a
caravan of restless people young and old, tired, not able to sleep well, shower
or eat much, and with exasperated hungry kids? How about with animals who can
get violent? And then having to deal with their daily affairs, on an empty
stomach for days? We all know that we can get “moody” when we’re hungry! Like
the TV commercial shows, cause “you are not you, when you’re hungry!” This must
have been a very difficult thing for their leader, Moses!
Sometimes we can supply some of
the demands of our people, but there are other times, that the demands are
impossible to meet?! But as a leader, what to do but PRAY? Sometimes we have an
idea they are murmuring about us, but really, we do not even want to find out,
especially if the reason for the murmuring is too greater and impossible for us
to meet. But for The LORD who sees
everything that’s happening, and for whom NOTHING is impossible, HE responded
immediately; even before Moses made the first appeal to Him about what was
going on.
A few things of this point that
we can take… The first thing The Lord wants us
to realize and understand that for even today is, that when we complaint about
someone, we are complaining to GOD, because that someone, believe it or not,
had been sent by GOD with a purpose for our lives. (Have you already started wandering what’s the
purpose [of that one you might have called a “bloodsucker”] and
what can he/she add to my life?) Yeah, God send him/her! Ouch!!!
Second, because that person is
God sent, God’s answer is secured; back then and as well as today’s! So God
spoke to that leader, telling him what to tell the people and how to do it. The response was meat to eat in the evening,
and bread in the morning. If we were Moses we would be thinking “I wonder how He’ll
do that?! Maybe a beautiful dish with a piece of quail and some mashed potatoes
and some salad…” Funny ha?! But the answer, I’m sure, surprised everyone because
that evening quail flew in, and covered the camp. (Folks, hunting season had
been established!)
The Lord also established some rules that would accompany that, what
HE would supply. So obedience was also a must, for these rules were to be as follow:
·
Hunting is necessary
·
Portion control is necessary
·
Leftovers on the sixth day were a MUST! (the “doggie
bag” was established, and “Glad” patented it)
It’s funny, and
you might be laughing but, did you realize that the established portion is the
same as the leftover bags or containers that we buy today, two quarts? Hum…. Sometimes
people say, “Here is something new! But actually it is old; nothing is ever
truly new[1],
and this, my friends is Biblical!!!
And did you
get that Moses was to save in a “jar” (a mason jar, could be?) two quarts of
manna to be placed in a sacred place before the LORD to preserve it for FUTURE
GENERATIONS!? That’s NOT a few days or even months, is talking about YEARS!!! That’s
REALLY a l e f t o v e r!
And then, providing water was
another story…. Is one thing to be thirsty because you don’t like to drink water,
but is another thing to be thirsty due to lack of water. About forty years after
feeding their tummies with quail and manna, they lacked water, and got thirsty,
but this time besides complaining among each other, they demanded water from
Moses. But as a great leader do, he went straight to the source, and cried out
to God. Immediately, God gave him the
needed answer, and lead him to show the people God’s power. By striking a rock at Mount Sinai, water
gushed out, and everyone stood in awe; wouldn’t you?!
And last but NOT least… when the
Amalekites came and attacked them, they weren’t ready; so Moses commanded their
men to go out to fight while he’ll be standing at the top of the hill, holding the
staff of God in his hand. I’m sure the people would question, just like us, and
that would do what???! But truly that was no shorter than another miracle,
because as you read whenever he dropped his hands the Amalekites gained
advantage, but then when Moses held up the staff he Israelites had the
advantage. So God’s people stepped out in faith, Aaron and Hur, one on each
side of Moses, held his hands steady until sunset. The result, the Amalekites
got overwhelmed and defeated! The
VICTORY belongs to Moses and the people of God. GLORY, GLORY, ALLELUIA!!!
I pray you got a good laugh out of
all these details which comes straight from God’s Word and are totally valid and
relevant for our lives today. I also
pray you understand that discovering the messages of God’s Word is no boring thing
but an exciting exploration mission; and I pray you get a hold of it, and RUN
to yours. For the glory of God, I pray
in JESUS name, AMEN!
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