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Exodus chapter 16, verse 4.

Then the Lord said to Moses,

Behold, I'm about to rain bread from heaven for you.

And the people shall go out and gather a day's portion every day

that I may test them, whether they will walk in my law or not.

There's so much going on here in this chapter in a scene that will be repeated over and over and over again

throughout the rest of the Bible as a picture of God's provision for his people on a daily basis. So they are in need of food

as they have now left Egypt. The people of God are already forgetting the goodness of God.

I mean, he's just delivered them out of slavery. He just brought them through an entire body

of water. The Red Sea split the sea in half, led them through on dry ground. Like, it wasn't even

wet ground. It was dry ground. He led them through, brought that water down on the Egyptians

so they could not overtake them.

And yet, two chapters after this happened, one chapter after, they praise God for that.

They are complaining before God, saying, would that we had died by the hand of the Lord in the

land of Egypt. And in this story, don't we see a picture of

ourselves of our tendency to forget the goodness of God? Our tendency to doubt his love for us,

his leadership in our lives, our propensity to even complain before God,

when He has promised to give us everything we need on a daily basis. And so he says here in

verse four, behold, I'm about to reign bread from heaven for you.

I'm going to provide for you.

I'm going to provide for my people.

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