Remember the Lessons God Teaches You (Ex. 16:33-36)

5/23/2008 8:36 AM

SPIRITUAL DIARY

My Worship Time           Focus:  Remember the lessons God teaches you

Bible Reading & Meditation               Reference:  Exodus 16:32-36

            Message of the verses:  “32 ¶  Then Moses said, "This is what the LORD has commanded, ‘Let an omerful of it be kept throughout your generations, that they may see the bread that I fed you in the wilderness, when I brought you out of the land of Egypt.’"  33  Moses said to Aaron, "Take a jar and put an omerful of manna in it, and place it before the LORD to be kept throughout your generations."  34  As the LORD commanded Moses, so Aaron placed it before the Testimony, to be kept.

35  The sons of Israel ate the manna forty years, until they came to an inhabited land; they ate the manna until they came to the border of the land of Canaan.  36  (Now an omer is a tenth of an ephah.)”

            This remaining section of chapter sixteen is about remembering, remembering how God took care of the needs of Israel for the forty years that they walked in the wilderness by giving them manna to eat each and every day.

            The jar of manna was eventually put into the arc of the covenant which went into the Holy of Holies which was in the Tabernacle that God told Moses how to build when he was on the mountain.  Also in the arc was Aaron’s rod and also the tablets of the Law that God gave to Moses on the mountain.  Dr. Wiersbe points out that these articles have a deeper meaning.  They show this important truth:  “That He is King and Lawgiver; that He established the priesthood; and that He fed His people because He cared for them.”  

            “God gave the law to Israel because He loved His people.  They needed a light to guide them, and God’s law is a lamb and a light; and obeying the law means life (Prov. 6:23).  When the people disobeyed, they needed a priest to help them be forgiven and reconciled to God.  They also needed to be re reminded that it was God who provided food for them, and that they didn’t live by bread alone but by the Word of God (Deu. 8:1-3).”

            Spiritual meaning for my life today:  Dr. Wiersbe named this chapter “The School of Life,” and in school there is a word one needs to always know and that word is “remember.”  There are tests in school with questions on them that the best way to answer them correctly is to remember what one has been taught.  In the school of life that I go to my text book is the Word of God, and I am to read my Text Book every day of my life for from time to time I am given a test from my Teacher and I need to remember what it was that I have been reading and learning from my Text Book.  If I don’t remember the things needed to “pass” the tests of life then sometimes I have to take the tests over again and go through some difficult times all over again. 

My Steps of Faith for Today:  I want to remember the tests of life that God has given to me and learn from them so that I don’t have to repeat those tests over again.  I want to yoke up with the Lord today as taught in Matthew 11:28-30; I want to trust and walk with the Lord as Proverbs 3:5-6 teach; I want to learn contentment as Paul writes about in Phil. 4:11; and I want to resist temptation by the power of God’s Word as seen in 1 Cor.10:13.

Memory verses for the week:                                  Matthew 11:28-30

28.    Come to Me, all who are weary and heavy-laden and I will give you rest.

29.    Take My yoke upon you and learn from Me, for I am gentle and humble in heart, and you will find rest for your souls.

30.    For My yoke is easy, and My burden is light.