Enough
- AfraOpoku
- May 4, 2025
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I would have had the maggots.1
Let’s go back a few millennia.
Israel had finally gotten out of Egypt. After 400 years of slavery, they were finally free. The only problem?
There was a considerable distance between their former abode and the promised land. This geographic detail had a lot of implications; one being the wilderness there were in had conditions that were antithetical to supply.
No one was going to be able to farm thus no one was going to be able to harvest.
For the first time, food and water had become a scarce resource leading to a natural tendency to horde whatever provisions were available.2
It was easy to forget under these circumstances that the God who has never had a lack mentality was the same one who filled the provision gap with manna.
This staple which was going to remain unchanged for the next 40 years came with an interesting set of instructions.
No one was to take more than they needed.3
That’s where I would have been caught wanting because I would have gone in for extras – just in case.
What if it rained on a particular day and I couldn’t go out to fetch some?
What if I had unexpected guests who needed to be fed?
For whatever reason, coming out of a slavery situation, I don’t see myself being quick to obey the instruction to just take enough.
Some people may fall in the category of not taking enough on Friday to cover the Sabbath.
I’m not one of those.
The planner in me would be more than happy to have more manna to cover my just- in -case scenarios.
Turns out God wasn’t operating a save the food philosophy.
In their literal day-to-day provision, God was teaching them to walk by faith; and faith dictated that the instructions may change at any point in time.
God could have tuned the heavenly store-room supply to set it and forget it mode.
Instead, He established in this scenario that when He says to let go, we are to obey.
The times have changed.
Israel is no longer on its way out of Egypt.
We on the other hand are en route to our promised land.
I wish one prayer covered our entire journey but it doesn’t.
Our walk is to be a daily walk.
A walk of faith.
A walk that changes according to His Plan.
Faith means adjusting our expectations while trusting God with each step and yes, that includes letting go of what He want us to.
Israel eventually got the picture and I’m sure those like me and those who were more lackadaisical towards their supply, got into sync with those who walked the straight and narrow.
God has never worked with a scarcity mindset and He doesn’t want us to either.
Regardless of individual circumstance, yours is to trust His supply.
As is mine.
1 Exodus 16 v 20
2 Exodus 16 v 3
3 Exodus 16 v 4