Sermon - 7-24-22

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Who do you trust? Who do you allow yourself to completely relax and be yourself with? Who do you share your deepest secrets, insecurities, questions and joy with? Who do you know you can count on, no matter what? Today we hear about trusting God through prayer, food and sabbath In the story from Exodus, the Israelites have been freed from the oppressive powers of the Egyptian empire, released from Pharoah’s exhausting dictates to do more They’re wandering through the wilderness toward the promised land And they begin to complain It’s been about six weeks since they fled Egypt and their memory seems to betray them / / / Just before this passage they complain “If only we had died by the hand of the LORD in the land of Egypt, when we sat by the fleshpots and ate our fill of bread; for you [God] have brought us out into this wilderness to kill this whole assembly with hunger.” (Ex 16:3) It has been observed that the Israelites were taken out of the Egyptian empire at the Red Sea, but it took all of the wandering in the wilderness for the empire to be taken out of the Israelites They long for what they perceive now as the good ‘ol days The LORD hears their complaint, and responds with a promise and a test The LORD promises enough to eat, and rest on the Sabbath We see the Israelites struggle with the idea of enough We see the Israelites resist rest We are so much like the Israelites / / / When the promised bread shows up in the morning They ask, “What is it?” Manna – literally means “What is it?” / / We live also within a society where our food is often unrecognizable With processed and packaged foods like hot dogs and Doritos Our summer BBQs take on a manufactured flare Even turkey at the deli and chicken at the meat counter are often unrecognizable from their animal source W

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