Surprising Grace in the Wilderness

We often grumble when life does not go as we hoped, when something we need is missing and God's care looks different from what we expected. Exodus 16–17 shows that our grumbling can reveal something deeper: the story we believe about what God must do if he is truly good. Israel's hunger and thirst led them to question the God who had already rescued them. From Exodus 16:1-17:7 we consider what the wilderness exposes in us and what it reveals about the God who meets his people there.