21/07/2021

The record of God's support for the Sons of Israel continues. The people are pretty well fed up that they have come this far to have to face the deprivation of hunger. The writer feels that this is a deliberate testing of them prepared by God. God certainly answers them and the phrase "Bread of Haven" makes its appearance into our Christian vocabulary. 

Angels don't eat as they dwell always as they were created  to be  themselves in the presence of the Lord; they share in the totality of being that is God.

 God saves his people Israel. God, the Father, Son and Holy Spirit, knows each person and offers us freedom of choice to accept or reject his support  in this life. Jesus speaks to us in parables and some he explains and some he leaves it up to us to interpret. 

Each of us is  the ground where the seed is sown. We are sometimes like the well trodden path and let the "birds" take the seed. Sometimes we are the rocks and our lack of substance cannot support growth; sometimes the thorns choke our God-centred growth What we all have is the deep soil of being that was created in God's image and likeness . God help me to find that deep soil and to cultivate it well so that the seed can grow and proliferate.

Dear Lord let me grow in your Love; sustain me in my Faith and let my Hope for a regrowth of holiness in your Church be realised.