Enough for Today: What This Changes Between Us

The extra bowl is still sitting at the end of the table. Last month this church prayed give us this day our daily bread after a household named a week that would not stretch. This month the same table can quote the dew, the omer, and the worms. The woman whose pantry is already thin sits two seats from a bulletin that already printed enough for today. The man who asked if anyone could help with groceries still gets a hallway blessing and no one at the meal. A teenager in the balcony is deciding whether this church is a people who eat together or a set of private pantries with better songs.

This is a sermon about what Exodus 16 changes between you. If you preach it as a map of anyone's private anxiety, you will lie. If you preach it as Israel in the wilderness of Sin, you give this church a God who gives a day's portion and will not let hoarded trust keep, and a people who cannot treat a brother's hunger as a private pantry the table does not have to carry.

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Hear the camp as Holy Scripture tells it, from the World English Bible: "In the evening, quail came up and covered the camp; and in the morning the dew lay around the camp.