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Bringing the timeless truths of Scripture into the everyday lives of believers. Each day we take the next piece of the Bible and reflect on it together to help you see how Jesus is the hero of every passage of scripture. Each day we also have a spiritual challenge for you to help you grow.

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  • What If God Lets You Go Hungry Just So You Learn to Trust Him: Exodus 16:1–36

    What If God Lets You Go Hungry Just So You Learn to Trust Him: Exodus 16:1–36
    Dec 3 2025
    We all have these moments in life where God allows us to feel our need so that we learn again where our help comes from. Hunger has a way of exposing the heart. It reveals what we truly believe about God and what we think we need to survive. Israel has already begun complaining. They have accused God of abandoning them. They have blamed Moses. They have twisted the past into something it never was. And yet God does not crush them for their unbelief. Instead He teaches them something deeper. He teaches them to trust Him one day at a time.Exodus 16:1–21 (ESV)They set out from Elim, and all the congregation of the people of Israel came to the wilderness of Sin, which is between Elim and Sinai, on the fifteenth day of the second month after they had departed from the land of Egypt. And the whole congregation of the people of Israel grumbled against Moses and Aaron in the wilderness, and the people of Israel said to them, Would that we had died by the hand of the Lord in the land of Egypt, when we sat by the meat pots and ate bread to the full, for you have brought us out into this wilderness to kill this whole assembly with hunger.Then the Lord said to Moses, Behold, I am about to rain bread from heaven for you, and the people shall go out and gather a day’s portion every day, that I may test them, whether they will walk in my law or not. On the sixth day, when they prepare what they bring in, it will be twice as much as they gather daily. So Moses and Aaron said to all the people of Israel, At evening you shall know that it was the Lord who brought you out of the land of Egypt, and in the morning you shall see the glory of the Lord, because he has heard your grumbling against the Lord. For what are we, that you grumble against us. And Moses said, When the Lord gives you in the evening meat to eat and in the morning bread to the full, because the Lord has heard your grumbling that you grumble against him, what are we. Your grumbling is not against us but against the Lord.Then Moses said to Aaron, Say to the whole congregation of the people of Israel, Come near before the Lord, for he has heard your grumbling. And as soon as Aaron spoke to the whole congregation of the people of Israel, they looked toward the wilderness, and behold, the glory of the Lord appeared in the cloud. And the Lord said to Moses, I have heard the grumbling of the people of Israel. Say to them, At twilight you shall eat meat, and in the morning you shall be filled with bread. Then you shall know that I am the Lord your God.In the evening quail came up and covered the camp, and in the morning dew lay around the camp. And when the dew had gone up, there was on the face of the wilderness a fine, flake like thing, fine as frost on the ground. When the people of Israel saw it, they said to one another, What is it. For they did not know what it was. And Moses said to them, It is the bread that the Lord has given you to eat. This is what the Lord has commanded. Gather of it, each one of you, as much as he can eat. You shall each take an omer, according to the number of the persons that each of you has in his tent. And the people of Israel did so. They gathered, some more, some less. But when they measured it with an omer, whoever gathered much had nothing left over, and whoever gathered little had no lack. Each of them gathered as much as he could eat. And Moses said to them, Let no one leave any of it over till the morning. But they did not listen to Moses. Some left part of it till the morning, and it bred worms and stank. And Moses was angry with them. Morning by morning they gathered it, each as much as he could eat. But when the sun grew hot, it melted. On the sixth day they gathered twice as much bread, two omers each. And when all the leaders of the congregation came and told Moses, he said to them, This is what the Lord has commanded. Tomorrow is a day of solemn rest, a holy Sabbath to the Lord. Bake what you will bake and boil what you will boil, and all that is left over lay aside to be kept till the morning. So they laid it aside till the morning, as Moses commanded them, and it did not stink, and there were no worms in it. Moses said, Eat it today, for today is a Sabbath to the Lord. Today you will not find it in the field. Six days you shall gather it, but on the seventh day, which is a Sabbath, there will be none.On the seventh day some of the people went out to gather, but they found none. And the Lord said to Moses, How long will you refuse to keep my commandments and my laws. See, the Lord has given you the Sabbath, therefore on the sixth day he gives you bread for two days. Remain each of you in his place. Let no one go out of his place on the seventh day. So the people rested on the seventh day.Now the house of Israel called its name manna. It was like coriander seed, white, and the taste of it was like wafers made with honey. Moses said, This is what the Lord has commanded. Let an omer of it be kept throughout your ...
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  • How Do You Sing on Sunday and Complain on Monday: Exodus 15:22–27

    How Do You Sing on Sunday and Complain on Monday: Exodus 15:22–27
    Dec 2 2025
    There is something very human about moments where our hearts are filled with faith one day and then crash into fear the next. We can stand in church overwhelmed with gratitude for what God has done, then find ourselves grumbling before lunch the next day. It is shocking how quickly joy evaporates when pressure rises. Exodus shows us we are not the first to fall into this pattern. Israel goes from tambourines on the shore to complaints in the desert in three days. And before we look down on them, we probably need to admit that this is far closer to our spiritual experience than we would like to admit.Exodus 15:22–27 (ESV)Then Moses made Israel set out from the Red Sea, and they went into the wilderness of Shur. They went three days in the wilderness and found no water. When they came to Marah, they could not drink the water of Marah because it was bitter. Therefore it was named Marah. And the people grumbled against Moses, saying, What shall we drink. And he cried to the Lord, and the Lord showed him a log, and he threw it into the water, and the water became sweet. There the Lord made for them a statute and a rule, and there he tested them, saying, If you will diligently listen to the voice of the Lord your God, and do what is right in his eyes, and give ear to his commandments and keep all his statutes, I will put none of the diseases on you that I put on the Egyptians, for I am the Lord, your healer. Then they came to Elim, where there were twelve springs of water and seventy palm trees, and they encamped there by the water.Israel goes from worship to whining in record time. Just three days earlier they were singing about the power of God and the majesty of God and the salvation of God. Now the tune has changed. The first sign of trouble and suddenly they cannot see God anywhere. This shift is the heart of the passage. The question is not whether God saved them. They know He did. The question is whether they trust Him to sustain them.Notice the pattern. They walk into a place called Marah, which means bitter. They taste the water and find it undrinkable. Their immediate response is not prayer, not remembering the sea behind them, not recalling the song they just sang. Their response is grumbling. And this is exactly what happens to us. It is easy to sing when the seas part. It is far harder to trust when the desert is dry. The problem is not the water. The problem is the heart.Moses does what they should have done. He cries out to the Lord. And God answers in a way none of them expected. He shows Moses a log. Moses throws it into the water and it becomes sweet. The lesson is simple. God can turn bitterness into sweetness with a single act of His will. Yet we rarely give Him the chance. We panic before we pray. We grumble before we look up. We doubt before we remember.Then comes the real point of the episode. God tells them He is testing them. Not to make them fail, but to teach them something they cannot learn on the shoreline. At Marah God reveals Himself as their healer. Not just the healer of bodies but the healer of hearts. The healer of unbelief. The healer of people who know how to sing a song but do not yet know how to trust a promise.And just when they think life will always be bitter, God leads them to Elim. Twelve springs of water. Seventy palm trees. A picture of rest and refreshment. God is showing them a pattern. The wilderness will have both Marah and Elim. Bitter days and sweet days. Dry places and shaded places. Neither cancels the other. God is present in both.But Israel does what we often do. Elim is not enough to teach them gratitude. When the next pressure comes, the complaints start again. This time it is hunger. And their complaints get darker. They say it would have been better to die in Egypt. Better to be slaves with full stomachs than free people with empty ones. They twist the memory of Egypt into something it never was. Slavery becomes comfort in their imagination. Oppression becomes security. This happens to every Christian who forgets what God saved them from. If you forget the whip of Egypt, you will long for the food of Egypt.What Israel needs is not more water or more food. Those things matter, and God will provide both. But what they truly need is a different kind of nourishment. They need faith shaped by remembrance. They need to look back at the sea behind them and let it inform the desert in front of them. They need to remember that the God who brought them out will not abandon them now.This passage confronts us gently but honestly. How quickly do you forget what God has done. How often do you assume the worst when difficulty comes. How easily do you let present pressure rewrite past mercy. Israel is us. We are them. Our hearts are not naturally trusting. They need to be trained.Yet the hope in this passage is immense. God does not abandon His grumbling people. He does not turn away in disgust. He meets them in their need. He turns bitter water sweet. He ...
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  • When last did you sing in thankfulness? Exodus 15:1–21

    When last did you sing in thankfulness? Exodus 15:1–21
    Dec 1 2025
    Have you noticed that some of the biggest turning points in life leave you strangely quiet? You come out the other side of something you thought would break you, a diagnosis, a betrayal, a season of fear, a weight you did not think you could carry, and instead of rejoicing, you simply move on. You slip back into routine. You do not stop long enough to recognise that God actually did something extraordinary. Exodus 15 confronts that silence. It shows us a people who, having walked through an impossible situation, stop everything to remember, to praise, to declare with full lungs what God has done. And the question for us is simple. When God brings you through the sea, do you sing?Exodus 15:1–21 (ESV)Then Moses and the people of Israel sang this song to the Lord, saying,I will sing to the Lord, for he has triumphed gloriously, the horse and his rider he has thrown into the sea.The Lord is my strength and my song, and he has become my salvation, this is my God, and I will praise him, my father’s God, and I will exalt him.The Lord is a man of war, the Lord is his name.Pharaoh’s chariots and his host he cast into the sea, and his chosen officers were sunk in the Red Sea.The floods covered them, they went down into the depths like a stone.Your right hand, O Lord, glorious in power, your right hand, O Lord, shatters the enemy.In the greatness of your majesty you overthrow your adversaries, you send out your fury, it consumes them like stubble.At the blast of your nostrils the waters piled up, the floods stood up in a heap, the deeps congealed in the heart of the sea.The enemy said, I will pursue, I will overtake, I will divide the spoil, my desire shall have its fill of them. I will draw my sword, my hand shall destroy them.You blew with your wind, the sea covered them, they sank like lead in the mighty waters.Who is like you, O Lord, among the gods. Who is like you, majestic in holiness, awesome in glorious deeds, doing wonders.You stretched out your right hand, the earth swallowed them.You have led in your steadfast love the people whom you have redeemed, you have guided them by your strength to your holy abode.The peoples have heard, they tremble, pangs have seized the inhabitants of Philistia.Now are the chiefs of Edom dismayed, trembling seizes the leaders of Moab, all the inhabitants of Canaan have melted away.Terror and dread fall upon them, because of the greatness of your arm, they are still as a stone, till your people, O Lord, pass by, till the people pass by whom you have purchased.You will bring them in and plant them on your own mountain, the place, O Lord, which you have made for your abode, the sanctuary, O Lord, which your hands have established.The Lord will reign forever and ever.For when the horses of Pharaoh with his chariots and his horsemen went into the sea, the Lord brought back the waters of the sea upon them, but the people of Israel walked on dry ground in the midst of the sea.Then Miriam the prophetess, the sister of Aaron, took a tambourine in her hand, and all the women went out after her with tambourines and dancing.And Miriam sang to them, Sing to the Lord, for he has triumphed gloriously, the horse and his rider he has thrown into the sea.Israel stands on the far shore of the Red Sea. The water is still swirling behind them. The bodies of Pharaoh’s army are washing up on the sand. But instead of rushing forward into the new life ahead of them, instead of setting up camp or getting organised or making plans, they stop. They sing. They worship. And that tells us something vital about the heart of genuine faith. Salvation is meant to be sung about, not quietly filed away as something God once did.Let us be honest. We are not naturally singers in moments like this. We assume we would be. We say things like, if God did a miracle like that for me, I would praise him. But would we. God has done miracle after miracle in your own life. Forgiveness of sins. Answered prayers. Preservation in hardship. Being carried through dark valleys. And yet most days we barely whisper a thank you. We move straight on, and the silence becomes a breeding ground for amnesia. Our hearts, if left unattended, wander back toward Egypt, back toward the very things that enslaved us.Pharaoh’s army behind Israel is a picture of that pull. The old life does not politely stay behind. It chases you. It pursues you. It insists that you belong to it. And the world, the flesh and the devil still operate the same way. They promise familiarity. They whisper that you were happier back there. They tell you that faith is too costly, too narrow, too intense. Come home, they say. But God steps in. He parts seas. He makes a way where no way exists. He brings you through the chaos, not around it, and then he buries the old life so thoroughly that it cannot claim you again.And what should our response be. The same as Israel’s. You sing. You declare. You name the salvation for what it is. Worship is not the ...
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