Seventh Day Baptist
Christian Education Council
PO BOX 1678
Janesville, WI 53547
—Exodus 16:9-12
by: Cheri Appel.
Having left Egypt six weeks earlier and now journeying through the wilderness, the Israelites truly were running out of food. Reviewing their complaints, however, what exaggerations do you detect? What had they conveniently forgotten? Considering who they were, and who had rescued them, what was missing in their thinking? God did not just give in to their complaints. He did not simply give them food. Explain the eternal lesson God taught the Israelites in this passage. And what about us? Do we believe, without a doubt, that God is faithful and will answer our prayers? Have we learned to depend on Jehovah-Jireh to provide for our needs without complaint?