A Moment in the Sun: Feasting on Daily Manna

Last week felt like darkness…

A sick child, battles over school work, a co-op class to teach, my seminary class work to do, and life…

It felt heavy and dark and never-ending…

I’m never going to catch-up. I’m a terrible parent. And I want more?!? I can’t even keep afloat with the children I have…I’m crazy I want a book deal?!? My brain circled and swirled. No matter how I planned or plotted it just seemed that I had too much.

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I felt like a lion too exhausted to bring down the kill, but nearly starving to death. Why do I choose to starve when God gives me manna for today? Sure it is only enough for today, but if I eat it today it sustains and satisfies. If I hoard it, thinking there isn’t enough, and try to grab more it goes bad…spoiled…moldy…rancid. And I starve because I didn’t use it all for the day God intended it…

I act as if God only gives sparingly or somehow He isn’t aware of all the things I have to do in one day. I look at the manna He gives for the day and shake my head.

It’s not enough.

I listen to Satan’s lie and grasp and cling for something anything else to sustain me throughout my day. I hunger for affirmation, assurance, peace. The more I frantically grasp at things that do not fulfill me the hungrier I become.

And the truth is God gave me enough manna for today – enough to sustain me, strengthen me, guide me…for today…

Tomorrow He will provide again. He’ll give me enough grace, love, sustenance to walk with Him all day long.

So today I took some time to feast on the manna He gave me for today.

I spent a moment in the sun…

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I enjoyed the manna for today…

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And did not worry about tomorrow…

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How do you make sure you do not borrow trouble from tomorrow?

 

Angela Mackey

Author and Speaker

Angela is a stumbling woman in need of God’s scandalous grace. Through faith in Jesus’ sacrifice on the cross, she bears the name Christian. She speaks and writes to make much of this God, His only Son, Jesus, and the Holy Spirit who lives in her. She graduated college with a Bachelor’s Degree in Nursing and is a Registered Nurse. She also obtained her Masters of Arts in Biblical and Theological Studies through Knox Theological Seminary.