Welcome to 10 minute Bible Talks, where we connect the Bible to your life in the time it takes to get to work.

My name is Keith Simon and right now we're going through the book of

Exodus. Okay we're getting ready to dive in to Exodus 16 but in order to help us

understand what God wants to say to us I want to share a couple little interesting thoughts. First, we're

comfortable with the word selfie. It's a word we use all the time and it's a word

that feels like it's been around forever, but it hasn't.

The first time Selfy appeared in the Oxford English Dictionary was in 2013, and yet there's not

a word that captures the spirit of our age better than Selfy. Here's the second thing.

Houses are getting bigger, families are getting smaller, and yet storage centers are full.

They're having to build more and more because people who live in bigger houses with smaller families have so much stuff

They don't have anywhere to put it so they rent a storage center what in the world do people put in the storage center that they can't put in their house. But that captures our

moment too, doesn't it? It's a culture of accumulation. All right, here's the third

thing. I saw an ad for a counselor that said that if you're not completely satisfied you can have all your money back.

Now who's completely satisfied with anything? I'm not completely satisfied with myself or my church or my dinner or anything much less a counselor how does

this counselor plan to stay in business if they say that people get their

money back if they're not completely satisfied.

All right, so now in Exodus 16,

here's where we find Israel.

They are sitting around by a beautiful spring called Elam.

They've got water.

It's a really beautiful area. they're getting refreshed and encouraged.

Sometimes there are seasons in the Christian life in which you're kind of getting fed and

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