The people had been living in slavery for four hundred years -- they had been trained that life was based on what you could get for yourself. They had to fight and scratch and claw for everything.
And so here they are, in the wilderness, likely assuming that life is the same, that they need to scrap merely to survive.
But God has a different idea of the rhythm of life. Some people would be able to gather more, some less, but at the end of the day, each has enough. It reminds me of Jesus feeding the 5,000 in Mark -- there were 12 baskets left over. There was abundance. Each person had enough.
That's the picture of the Kingdom of God. So many of us spend our lives racing, fighting, trying to get ahead. But God shows us that life lived in the Kingdom is one where we have enough. We look to our Shepherd, and we do not want. We rest by still waters.
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