In Acts 4 we find Peter and John in trouble for proclaiming the Good News of Jesus.
After an afternoon of visiting several members in hospital, which took much longer than expected, I phoned my wife and told her not to wait on me for supper. I was an hour away from home and decided to stop at a burger joint. I happened to be driving the church van.
Thanksgiving has just passed, and it always makes me think of Potluck Suppers.
God reminds His people through Moses that He provided for them and that they would now be in a much better place where they would prosper and have the freedom they did not have, and they were only to remember that it was and would be God who provided.
The difficult situations we go through are how our heart is corrected if, at the same time, we are clinging to God and His Word.