Always

I was thinking earlier today about how my choices for years have contributed to my spiritual state these days.  My thoughts wandered to the Israelites and their own wanderings.  What struck me out of nowhere was how God led them to the wilderness, to the dry place.  He went ahead of them.  And he never left them.

Those thoughts are comforting to me today.  Even in that wild, dry, probably desolate place God was with them and providing for them, sustaining them each moment of every day.  All they had to do was collect the manna.

Collect the manna.  The bread from heaven.  The "what is it?"  As Ann Voskamp talks about it, the mystery...our Lord Jesus Christ.