57.2 God's Reaction And Rain Of Manna

(Exodus 16:4-15)

The Lord said to Moses, "No I am going to cause food to rain down from the sky for all of you.  The people must go out every day and gather enough for that day. In this way I can test them to find out if they will follow my instructions.  On the sixth day they are to bring in twice as much as usual and prepare it".

So Moses and Aaron said to all the Israelites, "This evening you will know that it was the Lord who brought you out of Egypt.  In the morning you will see the dazzling light of Lord's presence.  He has heard your complaints against him - yes, against him, because we are only carrying out his instructions." Then Moses said, "It is the Lord who will give you meat to eat in the evening and as much bread as you want in the morning, because he has heard how much you have complained against him.  When you complain against us, you are really complaining against the Lord".

Moses said to Aaron, "Tell the whole community to come and stand before the Lord, because he has heard their complaints." As Aaron spoke to the whole community, they turned toward the desert, and suddenly the dazzling light of the Lord appeared in a cloud.  The Lord said to Moses, "I have heard the complaints of the Israelites.  Tell them that at twilight they will have meat to eat, and in the morning they will have all the bread they want.  Then they will know that I, the Lord, am their God."

In the evening a large flock of quails flew in, enough to cover the camp, and in the morning there was dew all around the camp. When the dew evaporated, there was something thin and flaky on the surface of the desert.  It was as delicate as frost.  When the Israelites saw it, they didn't know what it was and asked each other. "What is it?"

Moses said to them, "This is the food that the Lord has given you to eat."

57.1 Forgetting God's Gift And Grumbling

(Exodus 16:1-3)

The whole Israelite community set out from Elim, and on the fifteenth day of the second month after they had left Egypt, they came to the desert of Sin, which is between Elim and Sinai. There in the desert they all complained to Moses and Aaron and said to them, "We wish that the Lord had killed us in Egypt.  There we could at least sit down and eat meal and as much other food as we anted.But you have brought us out into this desert to starve us all to death". 

56.5 Your Word Is A Lamp For My Feet

(Psalm 119:105-112)

Your word is a lamp to guide me and a light for my path.
I will keep my solemn promise to obey your just instructions.
My sufferings, Lord, are terrible indeed; keep me alive, as you have promised.
Accept my prayer of thanks, O Lord, and teach me your commands.
I am always ready to risk my life; I have not forgotten your law.
Wicked men lay a trap for me, but I have not disobeyed your commands.
Your commandments are my eternal possession; they are the joy of my heart.
I have decided to obey your laws until the day I die.

56.4 Called In The Light

(1 Peter 2:9-10)

But you are the chosen race, the King's priests, the holy nation, God's own people, chosen to proclaim the wonderful acts of God, who called you out of darkness into his own marvelous light. At one time you were not God's people, but now you are his people; at one time you did not know God's mercy, but now you have received his mercy.

56.3 Walk In The Light

(1 John 1:5-7)

Now the message that we have heard from his Son and announce is this: God is light, and there is no darkness at all in him.  If, then, we say that we have fellowship with him, yet at the same time live in the darkness, we are lying both in our words and in our actions.  But if we live in the light - just as he is in the light - then we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus, his Son, purifies us from every sin.