The Grands Letter

Dear Grands,

Exodus 16:13-15, 31, “So it came about at evening that the quails came up and covered the camp, and in the morning there was a layer of dew around the camp. 14 When the layer of dew evaporated, behold, on the surface of the wilderness there was a fine flake-like thing, fine as the frost on the ground.

15 When the sons of Israel saw it, they said to one another, ‘What is it?’ For they did not know what it was. And Moses said to them, ‘It is the bread which the LORD has given you to eat’….And the house of Israel named it manna, and it was like coriander seed, white; and its taste was like wafers with honey.”

There is so much we don’t understand! When the LORD used Moses to lead the Children of Israel out of Egypt, they left with the riches of their Egyptian neighbors. The LORD had put it into the hearts of the Egyptians to freely give what they had to the Israelites. But the value of material possessions were little when it came to the need for food. How would they procure food for such a multitued? As with the material goods, God would supply their need for food and water.

Mysteiously enough, this “fine flake-like thing” would appear on the ground daily –every day, that is, except Sunday. On the day before Sunday, they were to gather twice as much. Thus, they were never without sufficient food. But, what was it? That puzzled the Israelites, so that they called it “manna,” meaning “What is it?”

There are multiple, countless provisions that the LORD has made for us, the reality of which we do not know. Negative circumstances fall upon us and we ask “Why?” The LORD replies with substance and we ask “What is it?” I have friends that I have met on mission fields that are now suffering from life-threatening diseases. Why has this befallen them? “What is it” that the LORD is allowing? Does He not know that they gave their lives to share His Message of Salvation with those who had never heard? Of course He does! What is happening is no mystery to Him. It is only a mystery to us.

The word manna is used only 11 times in the Old Testament and only four in the New Testament. The last mention of that word comes in Revelation 2:17: “To him who overcomes, to him I will give of the hidden manna.” He promises to reveal what is hidden to the one who spiritually overcomes –to the one who conquers, prevails, who is victorious. Things we cannot understand now, He will make known to true believers in due time. Don’t worry that you don’t understand everything happening around you today. Just live as an overcomer that honors Him. And as the old hymn states it, “We’ll understand it better bye and bye.”

Praying in faith and love daily,

Nana & Dado III

Gene L. Jeffries, Th.D.

Springdale, Arkansas 72764

United States of America

“We never know that God is all we need

until He becomes all that we have.”