wednesday Week 3

We have been looking at how the Way purposes to humble and test our hearts. The next few days we will look at why he does this.

The Way is not easy or comfortable. It involves suffering. But it is not meant to be torture. Nor is it meant to be punishment.

This is what how the passage continues: "Remember how the Lord your God led you all the way in the desert these forty years, to humble you and to test you in order to know what was in your heart, whether or not you would keep his commands. He humbled you, causing you to hunger and feeding you with manna, which neither you nor your fathers had known, to teach you that man does not live by bread alone but on every word that comes from the mouth of the Lord. Your clothes did not wear out and your feet did not swell during these forty years. Know then in your heart that as a man disciplines his son, so the Lord your God disciplines you." Deuteronomy 8:2-5

So there are multiple reasons. One is to teach us to trust in him. Man does not live by what he can provide for himself (bread) but instead on what God promises to provide for him (manna). Where is God teaching you to trust him? Where are you finding manna in your life?

More tomorrow.