Numbers 11:21-24a

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Numbers 11:21-24a
And Moses said, "The people whom I am among are six hundred thousand men on foot; yet You have said, 'I will give them meat, that they may eat for a whole month.' Shall flocks and herds be slaughtered for them, to provide enough for them? Or shall all the fish of the sea be gathered together for them, to provide enough for them?"
And the LORD said to Moses, "Has the LORD's arm been shortened? Now you shall see whether what I say will happen to you or not."
So Moses went out and told the people the words of the LORD...

Over the course of his life, Moses was probably faced with more impossible situations than most of us could dream up. And over and over he saw God provide in some way and bring them through impossibility. However, sometimes he still had questions--like in these verses. He can't quite figure out how in the world God is going to pull this one off! Meat for well over 600,000 people for a month?!
Here's what I think is interesting, though: Moses doesn't really get an answer to his question. God just says, "Now you shall see...", and Moses goes out and tells everybody that God is going to provide meat for them to eat. C.S. Lewis once said, "I know now, Lord, why You utter no answer. You are Yourself the answer. Before Your face questions die away. What other answer would suffice?" That's the situation Moses find himself in; the only answer to his "how" question is GOD. No other answer is needed!
I want to have the kind of faith that will accept that reply. Not that I will never question, but to be satisfied with that simple and all sufficient answer: God.

Father, help me to trust in You as the answer to all my life's questions!

May the Lord richly bless you as you trust in Him as the answer!

Dancing in the rain,
Haley "SunShine" Miller
"Exhort one another daily while it is called 'Today'" (Hebrews 3:13)
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