Welcome! Thanks for visiting. Please open your bible and read Nehemiah 9:19-21.
“Indeed, forty years You provided for them in the wilderness and they were not in want;” (Nehemiah 9:21a, NASB)
Have you transplanted a plant? As newlyweds, I wanted to put plants into the ground around our new home. Depending on the plant I purchased, the root ball, once exposed from the pot, needed specific root care. Some needed to be broken up a bit so they would take root in the new ground. Other root systems were delicate and the plant would be destroyed if broken up.
God removed the Iraelites from 400 years of slavery. There was some replanting that needed to occur in the wilderness, for their hearts and minds. A transfer of trust.
God knew what they needed to survive in the desert. Did they complain? Yes. Any replanting produces shock to the system. But God is a good gardener.
Our lives look very different from what we have known, but God is with us. He withholds no good thing from us.
Lord,
Withering hope is not your plan for us. You remain. You remain unchanged. You remain with us. You are for us and not against us. You are seeing us through. Should we lose hope today, replace our lost hope with your thoughts. You are our needed nourishment.
“Scripture quotations taken from the NASB. Copyright by The Lockman Foundation” http://www.lockman.org/