Exodus 16: 32-36: “And Moses said, This is the thing which the LORD commandeth, Fill an omer of it to be kept for your generations; that they may see the bread wherewith I have fed you in the wilderness, when I brought you forth from the land of Egypt. And Moses said unto Aaron, Take a pot, and put an omer full of manna therein, and lay it up before the LORD, to be kept for your generations. As the LORD commanded Moses, so Aaron laid it up before the Testimony, to be kept. And the children of Israel did eat manna forty years, until they came to a land inhabited; they did eat manna, until they came unto the borders of the land of Canaan. Now an omer is the tenth part of an ephah.
The Lord fed Israel for forty years while they were nomads in the desert. There were about two million people and they had their animals as well, probably about ten million head of stock. The Lord provided all these people and all these animals with water in the desert as well. It is not surprising that the Lord asked them to keep some of the manna as an ongoing memorial, if they could remember a miracle of that magnitude then, surely, they would understand that nothing was too difficult for the Lord. If you believe in the Lord Jesus Christ as your own personal Saviour then you can look back to an even greater miracle than that. This can help us to remember the words of Romans 8: 31-39 (“What shall we then say to these things? If God be for us, who can be against us? He that spared not his own Son, but delivered him up for us all, how shall he not with him also freely give us all things? Who shall lay any thing to the charge of God’s elect? It is God that justifieth. Who is he that condemneth? It is Christ that died, yea rather, that is risen again, who is even at the right hand of God, who also maketh intercession for us. Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword? As it is written, For thy sake we are killed all the day long; we are accounted as sheep for the slaughter. Nay, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him that loved us. For I am persuaded, that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor powers, nor things present, nor things to come, Nor height, nor depth, nor any other creature, shall be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.”) The Lord Jesus Christ is the best possible Saviour and He only knows how to do good things.
(The view expressed in this blog are my own and should not be taken as inspired in any way.)
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