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I remember the WWJD bracelets, asking “What would Jesus Do?”. Today we have a similar question, “What did the Israelites do?”. “The children of Israel lamented”; all they saw was the manna, the daily ration of desert-food God provided for them.
Manna was tasty, perhaps not ss tasty of a T-bone steak or Eggs Benedict. Manna probably became boring to them. No matter how tasty, after all the day’s heat and sand dunes the heaviness of their baggage and the day in, day out sameness, all their complaints came down to the food they ate.
What do we do in similar circumstances? Are we not apt to do the same? Would we be all smiles if we were to write in our log book,, “another five miles today on this eternal sun-baked arid sand”?’
Jesus was also in a desert. His desert took him through the Middle East through death on a cross to glory. From him no complaint, no anger, no frustration, only loyalty.
If we are followers of Jesus, should we not be content while living in the deserts of our lives?