Psa 78:18 And they tempted God in their heart by asking meat for their lust.
Psa 78:19 Yea, they spake against God; they said, Can God furnish a table in the wilderness?
Psa 78:20 Behold, he smote the rock, that the waters gushed out, and the streams overflowed; can he give bread also? can he provide flesh for his people?
In review, the psalmist revealed the limitation of faith among the Children of Israel. They saw Moses strike the rock, from which water gushed and quenched their thirst. Manna was their daily meal and wonders abounded in diverse places. They believed for water, the Cloud, and the overcoming power of Yahweh, but they lacked the faith for meat. They asked, “Can God provide a table in the wilderness?” … meaning, Can God give us more than just water and bread?
Seeing the plethora of divine intervention, this was an absurd question. But until you see it with your eyes, it is difficult to believe for it. Such was the story of a four day old deceased Lazarus. John 11:21 Then said Martha unto Jesus, Lord, if thou hadst been here, my brother had not died. She believed that Jesus was a healer of sickness. She never saw Him as the resurrection and the life.
Water? Yes, God can do that. Manna every morning? Yes, He can do that. Heal us of our sickness? Yes, Jesus is the Great Physician. But “meat in the wilderness?” We’ve never seen Him furnish a table in a dry place. We’ve never seen or heard of the Lord setting up banquet tables of food in a place where there is no food.
I submit that the Lord can do things we have never seen. In fact, I wonder if our limited faith is the greatest inhibitor to the unseen. Could it be that we doubt things we have never seen which stops those very things from being seen?
The quandary is real. If we walk by faith and not by sight; and if faith is truly the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things NOT seen, then it is critical that we believe for things we have never known. We must believe for what we think is impossible. Furthermore, if God is to move among us, there can be no doubt or limitations placed upon Him.
Eph 3:20 Now unto him that is able to do exceeding abundantly above all that we ask or think, according to the power that worketh in us.
Pastor Jeffrey Harpole