On the evening of the fourteenth day of the month, while camped at Gilgal on the plains of Jericho, the Israelites celebrated the Passover. The day after the Passover, that very day, they ate some of the produce of the land: unleavened bread and roasted grain. The manna stopped the day after they ate this food from the land; there was no longer any manna for the Israelites, but that year they ate the produce of Canaan.
Joshua 5:10-12 (NIV)
Father God, I sense I’m in a new season. As I reflect upon what You have done in my past, even like the Israelites reflected upon Your deliverance by celebrating the Passover, my soul celebrates how good You have been. Not only do I see Your deliverance from bondage as they did, but I also see Your glorious rolling away of my past sins in my wandering. I am no longer the slave of their memories but am free! Like the Israelites, I know that I am on the brink of something new, the threshold of some glorious work by Your hands in my life, and it is a time for rejoicing!
I know in this new season that the ways that You provided for me in the previous season will cease. I will be called upon to see Your hand at work in my life in a different way. It will not look like it did in the past. Like the Israelites who were one day fed miraculously by manna in the morning and the next consumed from the abundance of the land, and knew both were from You, I too will have to make that mental transition. The one perspective is clearly evident. The other easily blends into the “ordinary.” Yet they both are from You. This I must remember.
Open my eyes in this new season of my life. As I cross its threshold don’t let me forget who I am and Whose I am. Continue to tug at my heart, reminding me that there is more to my existence than my eyes perceive, that the “ordinary” is truly provided by an extra-ordinary God! Help me to connect the dots as I move from the “manna” blessings, the blatant baby food of faith, into the Gilgal blessings, where You have rolled away my reproach, moved me from shame to shouting, and have caused me to eat from the provision that You are providing in this land of promise. In Jesus’ Name I pray. Amen.