Be Still And Know

Exodus 16.17-18 NLT 'So the people of Israel did as they were told. Some gathered a lot, some only a little. But when they measured it out, everyone had just enough.' God’s miraculous provision of food for the people of Israel throughout their 40 years in the wilderness is breath-taking. I particularly love these verses because of this wonderful detail that, although the families had very different needs, everyone had just enough. Enough is a precious word and we should long that our world would come to love it. Sadly, although there is plenty of food for everyone in the world, there are millions of people who go to bed hungry at night. At the same time food wastage is on a colossal scale and it is reckoned that on average people in the UK waste more than £350 worth of food every year. It is impossible to know the exact number but it is said that about nine million people in the world die of starvation every year. It is a distressing statistic that a child dies of hunger every 10 seconds. If this were an