And Moses said to them, “It is the bread that the Lord has given you to eat. This is what the Lord has commanded: ‘Gather of it, each one of you, as much as he can eat. (Exodus 16:15-16 ESV)
Enough
Yesterday, a friend cooked a plate FULL of bacon as a gift for me. I shared a bit of that delicious bacon with DeAnne, but most of it, I ate myself.
Because I am not very good, at times, knowing when I have ‘enough.’
After the depression of the 1930’s, people who endured the hard times often tended to horde necessary commodities. Because having suffered, they, at times, were not very good at knowing when they had ‘enough.’
Both because our selfish tendencies cause us to usually desire more good things, and because our insecurities and ignorance about the future cause us to fear we will lack something, we are poor judges of what is ‘enough.’
But the same Lord who sent manna to the wandering Israelites knows what tomorrow looks like, too.
And He not only knows what actually IS enough, He provides it.
He blesses us, sometimes surprisingly, with grander provision than bacon… and He knows when it is enough. He provides for us, sometimes surprisingly, with what we really need, in HIS understanding, and He knows when it is enough.
We cannot accurately determine, ‘enough.’ But Jesus can.