The children of Israel’s memory was amazingly short, but thankfully, God’s love and patience were even more amazingly long. Soon after the people grumbled about lacking water, seeing God provide supernaturally, and then being led to springs of water, they grumbled once again – this time because they were hungry.

But instead of giving the people what they deserved (judgment from heaven) God gave them what they did not deserve (bread from heaven). Notice how He gave it to them, though. That detail is just as important as the provision itself. God gave them the food they needed each day – to teach them what they needed to learn: God is faithful; they could trust Him.

As you consider God’s goodness to you, don’t miss this: What God gives matters, but so does how, when and why. God is the giver of perfect gifts (James 1:17), and He gives these gifts in the perfect way, in the perfect timing, for the perfect reason: His glory and our good. 

• When have you seen God provide perfectly in your life?