Take a Minute -- Sunday, 5/2/10 -- DEALING WITH SLOW LEARNERS -- Deuteronomy 2

[J.R. & Bonnie Ricks]

 

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DEALING WITH SLOW LEARNERS -- Deuteronomy 2

 

The Israelites had proven to God that they were slow learners.  So He set out to teach them obedience and faith.  A whole generation of them died in the wilderness learning these two important lessons.  They spent forty years having manna for every meal. (see Exodus 16)  Every meal was the same thing.  Can you imagine that?  There are a lot of different foods that I love, but I can't imagine a diet consisting of just one of them – ANY of them – three meals a day, for forty long years!  Can you imagine anything more boring?

 

But that was the only food available to them.  That was it.  And God made sure they knew they had absolutely no hand in providing it for themselves.  They were totally dependent upon God for every bite that went into their mouths.  If they tried to gather extra to save up, it rotted during the night.  They would find it filled with maggots and stinking the next morning.  The only time it didn’t rot was the double portion they gathered to get them through the meals for the Sabbath.  Every morning, they had to wake up and have faith that the manna would be there again.  God had made them aware that they were totally dependent upon Him for their very existence.  And He was preparing the people to understand their total dependence upon Him for salvation through Jesus Christ.

 

Occasionally He does the same to you and me.  When we don't have enough faith, He places us in a position that confirms our dependence upon Him.  He teaches us faith.  And I know from experience, that particular learning process can be painful, very painful.

 

As obstacles arise in your path, big or small, believe that God is where you should place your faith.  Not in someone else.  Not in yourself.  Not in the economy.  Not in any man-affected or man-directed action.  Place your faith only in God, and then watch the miraculous way He controls things.

 

“And we know that in all things God works for the good of those who love him, who have been called according to his purpose.”  Romans 8:28 NIV

 

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