Scarlet Robe Creations

You were given all you required, bread from heaven. But was it enough? When you grumbled there was quail, and you horded the gifts. You were given sustenance, when in the Desert of Sin, you thought you might starve. Would you have preferred slavery in Egypt? You are given all you require, bread of life, come down from heaven. But is it enough when it does not come with the expected sword? copyright 2025 - Donald P James Jr https://www.amazon.com/stores/Donald-P.-James-Jr./author

"So, we are talking today in our readings about bread that came from heaven.  Manna.  A flakey substance left on the ground, every morning.  There were restrictions.  God said to Moses, this was a test." She has been preaching to the people for three months.  She is the shepherd of a flock that belongs to the Lord.  The gathering isn't large.  The church is small, just a simple white church on a knoll with a steeple in need of paint and new pews.  The tiny building has a bell that calls out to worshipers every morning. This, with all its scars, is a piece of heaven. "Now put your self in the same position as the Israelites.  It's difficult to imagine living in the times of ancient Egypt.  The clothing styles, the food they ate.  All that is so foreign to our way of thinking.  Even the wilderness that the chosen people wandered through is something most of us have never experienced." She steps away from the pulpit.  She isn...

We grumble against Your spoken word when it guides us against our choosing, allowing a discontented spirit to take root. The desert consumes us if we allow its sand to swallow our souls. We wander the vastness without direction, deciding to vacate the path of our guide. We thirst for You more than water. Like Peter we will always be stupid men, yet his confession of weakness is not ours due to pride. You will draw a river from a stone. Your skies will rain manna. You will fill our needs in abundance. Your blood will cleanse away our sins and still we grumble. copyright 2017 - Donald P James Jr https://www.amazon.com/stores/Donald-P.-James-Jr./author