Exodus 16:1–7
The Bible4Jesus.com Podcast
About this episode
The chains may be gone from his ankles, but they remain wrapped around his heart and his imagination. This is the central problem in the book of Exodus. God brings Israel out of Egypt in a single night of glorious power, but it takes forty years to get Egypt out of Israel. And the primary battlefield in that war is the stomach. We modern Christians like to think we are above such carnal concerns. We imagine that if we had seen the ten plagues, walked through the Red Sea on dry ground, and followed the pillar of cloud and fire, our faith would be unshakable. Our hearts are made of the same grumbling material as theirs. We have been delivered from the ultimate bondage of sin and death by a greater exodus, and yet how quickly we pine for the leeks and onions of our former slavery.