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God provided Israel with Manna for 40 years:
- He fed their physical need in a place that could not sustain them;
- He fed their spiritual needs to remind Israel that He sustained them;
- He fed them to encourage dependence on Him and contentment with Him.
When the Manna stopped, God didn’t change, He merely changed the way He provided for Israel. Instead of Manna every day, now Israel had a land flowing with milk and honey. The Promised Land was just a new place for Israel to be dependent on, sustained by, encouraged by, and content with God.
We all go through deserts and difficult times. Sometimes we live in a land that seems to be flowing with milk and Honey. Like Apostle Paul, we must learn to be content with God and what we have regardless of the state we find ourselves. Always remember that in your life God may change how He provides but He’s still the provider.
“I know both how to be abased, and I know how to abound: every where and in all things I am instructed both to be full and to be hungry, both to abound and to suffer need. 13 I can do all things through Christ which strengtheneth me.”, Philippians 4:12-13
“Let your conversation be without covetousness; and be content with such things as ye have: for he hath said, I will never leave thee, nor forsake thee.”, Hebrews 13:4-5
He’s still Jehovah, the Lord Who Provides.