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Joshua 5:10 - What ever happened to manna? - Day 184

Good afternoon fellow soldiers,

Well I am keeping pace but a few days behind on my devotions.  When I first created the note in Olive Tree a week ago (5/3), I had not heard Jonathan's sermon for 3/7.  But now that I have heard it, my thoughts on the passage adapt.  I will leave it to you to figure out why.

Blessings,

Jeff

The first Passover in the Promised Land and the last time the people tasted manna.

The provision of God for all their needs.  Thinking about how manna was given in response to grumbling of the people.  The "daily bread" aspect.  But in Deuteronomy 8:3 The "real reason" is given:

And he humbled you and let you hunger and fed you with manna, which you did not know, nor did your fathers know, that he might make you know that man does not live by bread alone, but man lives by every word that comes from the mouth of the LORD. 

Manna was supposed to teach that man does not live by physical means only.

Likewise, Passover was deliverance from judgment on Egyptians.  Now it was at entry to Promised Land.  First time was last day in Egypt. On the anniversary of their departure they arrive in the Promised Land.  This was not coincidence.  It was the ordained plan of God that exit and entry should be on the same day.  All that happened in between was God's plan.

Instruction - What does God expect of me? - First, just a comment on the truth Jonathan spoke about in 3/7/21 sermon.  The Bible is about God, not about us. Does this prohibit the question (What does God expect of me) that I borrowed from Luther?  Doesn't this question make the Bible about me?  I deny that it does.  Luther's goal (and mine) is to figure out what the passage teaches me about God and His plan of salvation.  Then in light of this how it should impact my life.  So in today's passage I learn that God will provide.  It may be in the miraculous form of manna or the natural process of growing crops.  But He is the one who provides.

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