Daily bread is our sustenance from God and praise is the sustenance of faith.
Have you ever wondered how the Israelites could have ever doubted God’s hand on their lives? After all, He clearly delivered them victorious in many battles where by all accounts, they should have been destroyed. He brought them out of Egypt. He parted the Red Sea and destroyed their enemy.
After they left Egypt, they wandered in the desert with nothing to eat or drink. They complained to God about Moses and Aaron and how their hunger was satisfied in captivity. And once again, God heard them and had mercy. He delivered bread, or manna, for them to eat for forty years.
The things God did for them is almost countless. Yet, they still doubted His existence and protection.
Am I the only one that wonders what life would be like, or more aptly, what my faith would look like if I could experience some of those obvious miracles? If God would only drop manna from the sky for me to eat… Would I be stronger in my faith? Would I need less “convincing” that God is really there for us in all circumstances?
I’m not sure. I was born into a fallen world. All around me, I see things that are at odds with God. I find myself wondering if God’s plan includes those as well?
And then I remember His promises and the blessings I have because of Him.
God does provide all our needs. We simply need to have faith.
So how do we get it and how do we keep it?
To build our faith, we must praise Him, even in the storms of life. Even if we’re wandering in a desert, our throats parched from thirst and our bellies growling for food.
The Tiny Words. Big Life. takeaway is three things: Belief that God will provide is a form of praise… and praise will build your faith… and faith can move a mountain.
Our mountains are every bit as big as those that the Israelites encountered and our faith is every bit as fragile. Let God move your mountains. He will provide.
Proverbs 30:7-9
Two things I ask of you, Lord; do not refuse me before I die: Keep falsehood and lies far from me; give me neither poverty nor riches, but give me only my daily bread. Otherwise, I may have too much and disown you and say, ‘Who is the Lord?’ Or I may become poor and steal, and so dishonor the name of my God.