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Thoughts on Exodus 16-17: How Not To Follow Directions
By daniel | August 16, 2007
These chapters are frustrating to read. If you haven't read them, I suggest read them now before continuing on here.
Ok, so you'd think that after seeing God miraculously deliver them, and then following around a PILLAR OF FIRE, you'd take God seriously, and you'd take His servant seriously. But God and Moses speak, and they seem to sort of follow, but consistently, there are those who don't pay attention or follow directions or simply obey. How hard is it to hear them say, "don't gather manna on Saturdays - get double on Friday" and then to do that? But inevitably, you see some of the people wandering out of their house on Saturday morning, looking for the manna. I guess they didn't think it was actually from God. Or they didn't understand that God told them not to do that. doesn't really make sense.
Then, they complain complain complain about the water. Now I understand that if you go without water for a long time, you will not make it. I get that. But certainly, there are better ways of approaching this aforementioned and proven God than grumbling.
And now, of course, we seem to be not much better ourselves, each at times. We know what God has told us is important, and we know what he has for us to do; yet we still for absolutely no logical reason choose to do something else or not do what he asks or something. I think it's just this truly stupid arrogance that we all have to let die with Christ.
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