February 05, 2018

Putting God to the Test

Bill and I bounce around supper menu suggestions and one of us may say, “Nothing sounds good.” I hear something similar from my 94-year-old mother-in-law who, like other elderly people, will say that nothing tastes like it used to, hence nothing is appealing. During the Exodus the Israelites grumbled because their pots of food and the amount of food didn’t compare with what they had in Egypt. God addressed their discontent by providing manna and quail as they wondered for 40 years in the desert. I’m now wondering how the nothing-sounds-good-to-me phrase falls on God’s ears today. Moses might very well say to us, “Come before the LORD, for he has heard your grumbling” (Ex 16:9b NIV).

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