Today, we may be doing exactly what we are supposed to be doing. Then, in the twinkling of a blink, trouble knocks on our story. A phone call comes. An unexpected word from work. And it happened to the Israelites when they pitched tent in a new town. No water there. And the grumbling commenced. So, they default to stoning Moses with words and threats. They would rather be back in Egypt with food and water than trusting God in the middle of a desert. Back in Egypt where God could take their life there but not here. But This Providence has designed, allowed, charted cisterns that men fall into; wilderness that have dried up full; and friends who forget you in the dungeons of life. Discontent makes us look larger on that past of ours and lesser in the present moment. What is this that God will do here for us today---what is it?
"Then said the LORD unto Moses, Behold, I will rain bread from heaven for you; and the people shall go out and gather a certain rate every day, that I may prove them, whether they will walk in my law, or no." Exodus 16:4
DEAR GOD, PLEASE CHANGE US IN ONE OF THESE 10,000 MOMENTS, We don't see You in our suffering, do we? We mark it off as wrong. Well, maybe you are marking our lives for eternal purposes, for the trial of our faith. Change us, O God.
PHOTO: Fig Tree. Rock Lake Ranch. Just doing life. Watching things grow. And then. The shoe falls.
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