The Value of Faith

Faith is necessary for everything of value that we do. The only thing accomplished in our lives apart from faith is that which is humanly possible.

While the Israelites were on their journey, they became hungry. In fact Scripture says God allowed them to hunger. Deuteronomy 8:3, “So He humbled you, allowed you to hunger, and fed you with manna which you did not know nor did your fathers know, that He might make you know that man shall not live by bread alone; but man lives by every word that proceeds from the mouth of the LORD.” God created a need in their lives to test them and to make them know
His sufficiency. God sent the manna to test the Israelites.

Exodus 16:4-5, “Then the LORD said to Moses, "Behold, I will rain bread from heaven for
you. And the people shall go out and gather a certain quota every day, that I may test them, whether they will walk in My law or not. 5And it shall be on the sixth day that they shall prepare what they bring in, and it shall be twice as much as they gather daily." I would venture to guess that the question running through the mind of the people was, “Will we get enough to
eat?” Where was faith required? They needed to believe that tomorrow there would be food. If they gathered more than their quota, it got wormy. Only on the sixth day were they allowed to gather a double portion. I think it required faith to gather simply a quota and trust that it would be enough, and there would be more the next day.

See, God often creates a need in our lives to test us, and so that He may fill it. The most unsettling time in our lives is that span of time between God creating the need and when we go to Him to fill it. In that span of time we grumble, complain and run hither and yon seeking a way to meet that need apart from Christ. It requires faith to believe that God will meet that need;
that He will be enough.

Diane