Matthew 6:5-15

"He gave you manna to eat in the desert, something your fathers had never known, to humble and to test you so that in the end it might go well with you."

{Deuteronomy 8:16} (NIV1984)

I am so glad that I was not among those people, whom 1 Corinthians 10 calls an example! I am sure that I would have been among the rabble crying out to go back to Egypt. They had food in Egypt, and now they have none. They were slaves, but compared to dying of hunger in a desert, being a slave seemed pretty good. How could God, who had miraculously saved them from slavery and death, put them in a situation where they were facing starvation? 

Moses tells us that God did it for their own good, that it might go well with them. God placed them in a situation where they needed to go out each day and look for the provision that God had sent. It placed them in a humble situation, a situation of complete dependence upon God for what they needed that day. We work hard to be in a place where we don’t need God’s miraculous provision for our food each day. Yet Moses tells us, that place is a place of blessing. God’s kingdom is upside down to our thinking, and our Lord reminds us of this when He taught us to pray; “Give us this day our daily bread.” 

Friend, do you need God’s miraculous intervention to make it through this day? You, friend, are in a place of blessing! You are in a place where you know the reality that the rest of us deny. Every human on the face of this earth needs God’s intervention to survive, but only a few of us know it! ASK Him, He will provide for you today!