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Trip app. This week, Paul wants to show us how the food we eat every day points us to Jesus.

Here's this week's Wednesday's work.

Luella and I live in Philadelphia, nearby the Redding Terminal Market.

It has 120 unique food vendors, and it has become our supermarket.

It is the world's most amazing grocery store. I shop for our food nearly every day, and when I take a moment to pay attention, I'm blown away by what I see and smell.

I love how much of the glory of God is edible. I love how God has not ordained to sustain us with a

single daily pill that has vitamins, nutrients, and calories, but delights in

blessing us with the pleasure of an almost endless variety of tastes, textures, and smells.

It melts my brain, and too often in my mouth, that all of these wonderful gifts, like chocolate,

came out of the mind of God.

Food represents God's generosity and love. It shows off his glorious power

and magnificent creativity. It reminds us that God wants us to thrive, enjoy, and delight in

worshiping him, the one who has lavished such goodness on us. In Exodus 16, we are shown a historical

example of the extent of God's commitment to supply

his children with the physical food that they need and of the awesome power he has to provide

it.

The people of Israel, now in the wilderness, are in a state of panic.

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