Manna in the Wilderness

What is this? What’s it like? This little taste of heaven left here by design. It’s abundant, but to my surprise – I can’t hold it for more than one day at a time. How can I know how much is right? Will I ever need more than what You’ve said You will supply? As I gather it up at first light, I pray for the faith to trust You always provide

For to take and eat this sacred feast is to taste and see it’s all I need to grow in gratefulness and to find Your faithfulness like manna in the wilderness

Do we hunger so that we know what it feels like to live on more than bread alone? For every word You have spoken sustains the life of each delighting soul.

For to take and eat this sacred feast is to taste and see it’s all I need to grow in gratefulness and to find Your faithfulness like manna in the wilderness

From the garden through the desert sands to the shores where You fed thousands – lest I wander to what won’t last, create in me a hunger for living bread: the Living Bread that came down from heaven

For to take and eat this sacred feast is to taste and see it’s all I need to grow in gratefulness and to find Your faithfulness like manna in the wilderness

So, this song is four years old at this point when I’m recording it in 2026. I remember it was a season of really wrestling with what the future held for me. A lot of questions of – is singleness the path God has for the rest of my life? (spoiler alert – its not anymore) What am I supposed to do with my songs if it costs a lot of money to make them and I earn no money to give them to the masses? (that’s still true) Am I supposed to remain a teacher for my whole adult life? What is God calling me to?

I was wrestling with those questions at the same time I was reading the account of the Israelites in the wilderness again. It struck me – the Lord had given them a big answer to their wandering question: “I will bring you out to a promised land.” But, when? How? What are we to do in the meantime? Well, the Lord didn’t answer those as plainly for years. Instead, He waited as He taught His people trust in Himself, and it was a trust He wanted them to exhibit daily, as His faithful providence was also daily. So, a kick in my butt was to realize – even if I don’t have answers to all those questions – I am called to live faithfully in the present with what He has given me and the commands He has given me to follow.

In a way, can that feel like a letdown? Sure. But, it is also a relief. I don’t have to figure it all out – I can just walk daily in what He has already given me to walk in.

Then, we were studying John in Bible Study and the bridge brought me to John 6 – the feeding of the 5,000, where Jesus then says that the people following Him just want miracle bread – they don’t even want Him. In the wrestle of seeing if He’s enough…do I just want my answers to my big questions with some patience gained in the process? Or do I want Him?

Friends, let’s continue to ask that question, and continue to ask for His grace to create in us a hunger for Himself – the only bread that can satisfy. Can’t wait until this one finds ya’ll!