Thursday, January 26, 2012

Morning Blessings

 In the evening quail came up and covered the camp, and in the morning dew lay around the camp. 14 And when the dew had gone up, there was on the face of the wilderness a fine, flake-like thing, fine as frost on the ground. 15 When the people of Israel saw it, they said to one another, “What is it?” For they did not know what it was. And Moses said to them, “It is the bread that the LORD has given you to eat. - Exodus 16:13-15 
I think it is funny that when they did not know what it was, they said 'What is it?' or pronounced 
"manna" so they called it 'What is it?' from then on.   It reminds me of a time in the spring of 2010, we had a couple of bags of clothes sitting right outside the door that I was going to take charity.  One Sunday night I came home after a meeting and there was a puppy laying in between the bags.  I said, "Who's He?"  The next day Dawn and I were leaving on a trip and the children were staying with some friends.  I knew we would not be around for several days, so I fed the puppy thinking after four or five days, it would be gone.  When we returned four days later, there were two puppies on our carport that ran out to meet us.  We claimed one and a neighbor claimed the other.  We named our puppy, "Who's He?" based on that first encounter.  We spell her name, Whoosie (the extra "o" is a tribute to an old dog we had then named "Boo").    At the time we had two dogs- Boo and Whoo (pronounced Who) or together they were "BooWhoo".  I could not help but think about that when I read the manna episode.
That part of it was funny, but there is another part of it that is reassuring.  God's blessings are renewed day after day.  There is never a time when we need worry what we will find in the new day.  God is already there and His Blessings are new every day.  Does that make every day pleasant? No.  It does, however, reassure us that no matter what that day holds, God holds that day. He has already been there.  He is ready to make us ready for whatever may come.  As sure as the dew is on the ground on a summer morning (and even more so),  we can be sure that God will walk with us in this day.  That alone is quite a blessing.   Have a blessed day!

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