For Food & Family on Friday, I will borrow from last week’s theme of “enough.”

While the Israelites were wandering in the desert, God provided them with manna to eat.  The word manna means “what is it?”

Suffice to say that it was their nutritional sustenance for each day.  It was a wafer that tasted like honey which fell from the sky each day except Saturday.  Every morning, they were to gather enough for that day and that day only, except for Fridays – the day to gather twice as much in preparation for the Sabbath day of rest.

Whoever gathered much did not have too much and whoever gathered little did not have too little.  They were not to save any for the next day.  It was their daily bread.  Each day, as promised, the manna would be there again – a testimony to God’s provision and a testing of their faith.

God’s daily provision of sustenance did not end with the Israelites in the desert.

Jesus taught His disciples to pray, “Give us today our daily bread.” (Matthew 6:11)

Am I satisfied with my daily bread?  Do I trust God’s provision to be enough?

(Full story is found in Exodus 16)