Speaker 1: Most of us eat every day, some of us too
much because yesterday's food is not enough to supply energy
for today's needs. Why then, do some of us expect
yesterday's portion of heavenly manna, the word of God to
keep us through today's challenges. On this program, we are
going to change all of that. Let's experience God's words
today and receive the power we need to live healthy,
vibrant lives. Welcome to Your Daily Portion with your host,
author speaker Elle David Harris.
Speaker 2: Good morning, Good morning, Good morning. It is Monday, August eleven,
twenty twenty five. Hello, my name is El David Harris.
I am your host, and this is your Daily Portion
where we give you God's word every single day, and
today is no exception. We are continuing in our Lesson
study series through the Book of Exodus, and our caption
for today is Quail and Mana, Oh my Quail and Manna.
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Let's pray, Father, thank you for this day. Thank you
for your daily bread, the daily bread that you have
given to us. Please help us to love you and
love your provision. In Jesus' name. I pray Amen and
Amen again, give us this day our daily bread. Now
I know that God was teaching us when Jesus was praying,
that we should be grateful and ask him and be
appreciative of ask him for and be appreciative of our sustenance.
He gives us sustenance. And so of course it doesn't
mean bread literally, like grain based baked bread literally. But
but there is a context now, and we're looking at
quail versus manna in the story of the Exodus, because
God had made provision for his people, but they seemed
not to be satisfied. And so we go now to
Exodus chapter sixteen, and this time we'll read just verse fifteen,
and the Bible reads and when the children of Israel
saw it, we're talking about the bread from heaven that
God had given them because they needed to be able
to eat for those forty years. God made provision for
them when they saw it, they said to one another,
it is manna. I'll come back for that. For they
wisked not what it was. And Moses said, unto them,
this is the bread which the Lord hath given you
to eat. You see, Adam and Eve had the same problem.
In a way. The Bible says that he had given
God had given them from every tree of the garden
to eat, except the one in the midst of the garden,
which was the not tree of the knowledge of good
and evil. So God had made provision for them. But
both Adam and Eve Eve fell into sin through deception. Right,
Adam jumped into sin. Both of them ate what God
said not to eat, and there are consequences for going
against God. Was the fruit poisonous? No, was there anything
wrong with the fruit? No, except that God had tested
them and said, you will eat from every tree except
this one. It was a test of loyalty. And so
in the same case. Here, in the same way, here
we see that God had given the children of Israel
bred from heaven. But they were dissatisfied. And when they
looked at it, they said, what is it? What is it?
That's what manna actually means. What is it? It reflects
the mystery and the provision. So God makes provision even
though they didn't quite understand what it was. But even
still it wasn't what they wanted. They didn't want that.
They didn't want God's provision. They wanted God to bow
to their requirements of him, and so they instead asked
for quail. Now, quail's a clean meat. You know it's
clean meat. But God didn't provide quail for their benefit.
Oh wait a minute. Now it becomes a judgment because
there are times that God gives us what we pray for,
even though He has shown us what his real and
true ideal provision is. And because we pre this press press,
press press, God sometimes will give us what we ask for.
Speaker 1: Uh.
Speaker 2: Oh, he gave them what they asked for, and they
also got sickness. They also got judgments. They also became
more separated from God because they did not believe in
God enough to accept his provision. And so manna wasn't
just bred from heaven. It was really an object lesson
of trust. When God makes provision for me, do I
trust him? When I am anticipating God making provision, do
I trust him for it? Or do I do I
manufacture ways to provide for myself. I wish I had
the time to really deal with this. But the fourfold
weekly miracle of Mana, which is highlighted in Exodus chapter sixteen,
verses twenty two to thirty, highlighted God's sanctification of the
seventh day Sabbath, weekly test of obedience, and memory of
God's power and creation, his sovereignty, and his creation. The
failure to trust God's provision was seen as unbelief and rebellion. Moses,
you're taking us into the wilderness to kill us off. Moses,
We had all kinds of flesh in Egypt. Why can't
we have that now? And God is providing himself as
an object lesson. Yeah, there are times that God provides
himself and we prefer other gods. We do have other
gods before him. He is the bread, Jesus is the
bread from heaven. And we choose the other gods, the
gods of our images online like sometimes we believe the
filters we put over our faces and our followings, right, yeah,
like subscribe and share, Like sometimes we get to the
point where we believe the hype about ourselves and we
replace God with the spiritual degradation. Of quail instead of
the read from Heaven. So the failure to trust God's
provision was rebellion. Now from the book Patriarchs and Prophets,
page two hundred ninety four. Oh, somebody just got it,
I said, rebellion. I couldn't nice it up. I could
not nice it up. And it reads the they murmured
for the flesh pots of Egypt. But the Lord had
heard their murmurings. He gave them flesh in the evening
and bred in the morning. He would prove them to
them whether they would walk in his law or not.
From the book Councils on Health, page one hundred and eighteen.
God might have rained down manna from heaven every hour
of the day, but he chose to give it in
the morning to teach them order, discipline, and trust. And so,
in the context of their day, the food crisis in
the wilderness was a test of obedience. God used daily
provision and the Sabbath rhythm to teach the people of
God how to live in covenantal dependence. When you get
your paycheck on the cadence that you're accustomed to or
rhythm that you're accustomed to, are you trusting the paycheck,
or are you trusting God? When something goes weird, you
lose a contract. I've lost contracts, so many contracts over
the last thirteen or so years, or I shouldn't say
so many, but a couple of very pivotal ones. And
it was disappointing. But I've never been confused, like God
is the one that makes the provision, not the people
who are paying these these checks, you see. And so
the repetitive murmuring showed a pattern of distrust even after
God had given them clear miracles. But it's easy for
us to look back and criticize, and maybe even objectively
so what they had done. Yeah, but what about me today?
Gratitude must outweigh my grumbling. In fact, I need to
not grumble. If you find that you're a complainer, stop it.
Let me just say that I don't have time to
nice that one up. God has proven himself before. Trust
him again. Don't hoard some of you got food that's
rotting in your cupboards. You get all kinds of stuff
in your house that you don't need. Stop hoarding. Trust
God for today's bread. Manna represents daily grace, not weakly stockpiles.
So much more to say so little time, but let
me just say God gave them boundaries, God gave them
a rhythm, and He gave them himself in daily form.
Make it a great Thanks for joining us listening. Friends.
Speaker 1: Always remember we cannot live by bread alone, but by
every word that comes from the mouth of God. This
has been your daily portion with El David Harris. Make
it a great day. Yeah,