Here Am I, Lord...Send Somebody Else by Jill Briscoe

Author:Jill Briscoe
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Thomas Nelson
Published: 2017-11-29T05:00:00+00:00

GOD ALWAYS HAS BREAD FOR HIS PEOPLE

I have noticed that God always has bread for His people. “Give us food!” the children of Israel demanded. “Go and get it yourselves!” Moses and Aaron retorted. “Gather it according to your eating.”1 There is enough manna to satisfy the most ravenous wilderness Christian. He has promised, as our Shepherd, to lead us into green pastures and teach us to lie down there.

The way a shepherd teaches a sheep to lie down is quite simple, for the sheep is an animal that lies down only when its stomach is full. This shows it is satisfied. Once the sheep is full, it can rest beside the still waters. It does not run around bleating and complaining about its shepherd. The shepherd’s responsibility is to lead the flock into green pastures and say, “Go to it!” The sheep’s responsibility is to do just that. I believe the antidote for a critical attitude is manna in the morning. Show me a complaining Christian, and I’ll show you one who is not collecting his daily food and digesting it, and is therefore unsatisfied. Jesus instructed His followers to pray, “Give us today our daily bread” (Matthew 6:11). He will give it—we should eat it!

I mentioned earlier in this chapter that the Israelites were instructed not to gather any manna on the Sabbath, for there would be none to gather. God did not want them to have to do that on their rest day. So they had to store up enough for their day of rest. When the Sabbath came, they could simply share their stored manna with each other and enjoy it together. It was one day of the week when the bread was to be provided and preserved for the whole family. The manna was to be in the tent, not in the field!

I am quite sure from my own experience that if I faithfully collect and eat my daily manna, when Sunday comes, that which I do not collect for myself, but is provided by my pastor or spiritual leader, is all the more enjoyable. I approach worship with a totally new attitude. I enter my church fellowship with excited anticipation. What the preacher says makes sense. I listen intently. (I always listen with a pencil in my hand. Try it!) This way none of the manna falls to the ground and is wasted. Perhaps I have been grazing the same patch of ground the preacher has been working on. My hunger or appetite is there, of course, for daily hunger requires daily bread, but now, just for once, it is someone else’s responsibility to feed me. It is the Lord’s Sabbath. I rest from my own labor of collecting my own spiritual food, and I absorb the food served for me in my local church.

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