🍞 Bread on the Ground

After the sea, the wilderness was hungry. The people grumbled. “We had food in Egypt,” they said, forgetting how hard Egypt had been. God heard the grumbling and still answered with kindness.

In the morning, thin flakes covered the ground like frost. The people asked, “What is it?” That question became its name: manna. It tasted like wafers made with honey. They were to gather only enough for the day. If they hoarded it, it spoiled. On the day before Sabbath, they gathered twice as much, and that extra did not spoil, so they could rest.

Every sunrise was a lesson. God knew about breakfast. He did not drop a year’s worth of bread at once, because he wanted his children to look for him again tomorrow.

You do not have to carry every tomorrow on your pillow tonight. Ask for today’s bread — today’s patience, today’s courage, today’s meal — and trust God to be awake before you are.