What will we eat in the seventh year if we do not plant
or harvest our crops? (Leviticus 25:20).
Why is it so hard for us to trust God? In my fifty plus
years there have been times I have been faithful to God and times I have been
unfaithful. There have been times I trusted him and times I did not. But I can
say with certainty, there has never been any wavering with God – God has always
been faithful; God has always been trustworthy.
The Israelite people suffered from that same lack of trust.
Even though God had assured them he would provide – they’d seen it with their
own eyes – they felt the weight of providing for themselves and their families
as if that responsibility rested on their shoulders alone. God had shown
himself to Abraham as Yahweh-Yireh (God my provider) in Genesis 22:14,
a story treasured by all Abraham’s descendants. Traditionally, as this word was
being delivered to the people, they were eating their fill of quail and bread
every day (including the Sabbath when they were restrained from gathering
manna). They had a ready example of God’s faithful provision.
And yet whether it’s the odd Israelite out collecting manna
on the Sabbath, or planting crops in the seventh year, or David counting his
fighting men, or us worrying about our bills, lack of trust seems to eclipse
even our imagined lack of resources.
TODAY’S MEDITATION
Does trust come hard or
easy for you? How will you show faith in God’s provision this week?
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