5-8 - March 24, Wednesday

5:11 On the day after the Passover, on that very day, they ate some of the produce of the land, unleavened cakes and parched grain. 12 The manna ceased on the day after they had eaten some of the produce of the land, so that the sons of Israel no longer had manna, but they ate some of the yield of the land of Canaan during that year.

 I almost let these verses fly by too quickly. For 40 years, God had provided food that only had to be gathered from the surface of the ground. Now, they were planting and harvesting and able to provide food for themselves, no longer requiring God’s mobile food drops.

But think about this. Most of the people that had experience farming of any kind, was dead. I suppose that perhaps Joshua and Caleb (along with supernatural intervention) began teaching the skills of farming.

I even wonder if perhaps there were a certain number of people that complained about gardening and instead wished for the good ole days of heavenly manna.

 Our lesson from this:

There are times spiritually that our main objective is to travel, trusting God to provide the needs that we cannot due to our mobility. But then there are times spiritually, that we settle down and focus more on our work – sowing and reaping.

Just remember not to complain too much about having to change a 40 year lifestyle!