Hi, and welcome to Five Word Prayers Daily, a five-day-a-week daily devotional where we share the

word, prayers, and our heart. I'm Lisa Whittle, and I welcome you to just five minutes with me,

which I trust and pray will be five minutes well spent. Well, happy Friday, friends. I love this day

of the week. So it's the last day of our week-long series about obedience. And to close things out,

I'm going to dive into a story that may be familiar to some, may not be to others, but it perfectly

illustrates, I think, human nature where God stands with all of it and how it all might end up

if we don't do it his way. Be back in just a minute.

Thank you. do it his way. Be back in just a minute. So we're going to do a scripture dive today, and we'll be in Exodus 16, and let me give you a little bit of background. About a month after

God used Moses to deliver the people of Israel from captivity in Egypt. After they famously

crossed through the Red Sea by the mighty hand of God, they find themselves in the sin

desert, appropriate name, I think, where it's barren and full of sand and stone, just not a very

nice place. And so, as it's starting to be their custom, when they're put in a place of

unfamiliarity and difficulty, they begin to complain and question God. This time, their struggle and

angst is centered on food, and they're not happy about the situation. They're complaining to and

about Moses and Aaron, their leaders. And they're even saying this in verse three,

oh, that we were back in Egypt. It's hard to believe, isn't it? But that's where they were.

It would have been better if the Lord had killed us there. At least there we had plenty to eat,

but now you've brought us into this desert to starve us to death. Now, we don't have time to

read the whole passage,

but I hope later you'll go back and read that scene from Exodus 16. Read the whole chapter.

I love the whole book of Exodus, really. But in a nutshell, here's where it goes from there,

what I just read. The Lord, of course, hears all this and in his grace and great love and giving

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