An Omer's Measure of Grace

I am currently doing a Woman's Bible Study in my home on Wednesday nights and last night's study was especially poignant. We are doing Beth Moore's "A Woman's Heart," and the topic was the beginning of the Israelite's "exodus" through the wilderness. The verses that I needed this week were Exodus 16: 16-18 where God is explaining how they will gather manna to eat each morning. They gathered the manna (bread from heaven, literally the food of angels) by the omer which is about 2 quarts. No matter how much or how little they gathered, it was enough for their needs for the day. In her commentary, Beth Moore gave me exactly what I needed for this week.
"God is always sufficient in perfect proportion to our need. Every morning He has already set aside the omer for our daily need. God's grace and mercy are always there, available every day, prior to our need, and in direct proportion to every moment's demand; but we must gather them. God's grace is always sufficient, and His arms are always open to give it; bur will our arms be open to receive what He so graciously offers? You and I can survive anything, but we must want to."

So this week I will start each day open to take the grace and mercy I need. Today it was grace to handle the 1,000 suicidal termites at my front door and be thrilled about the science lesson it provided my daughter, not to mention the joy it gave her to help use the vacuum cleaner to suck them up. This grace will be new every morning as I clean them up until my termite appointment next Thursday!:) I also have praise to offer that Michael had a great "team meeting" last night and was able to take his final orientation classes today. He was told that he has received the highest recommendations in evaluations from the supervisors he had interacted with. On Monday he will find out if he is cleared for work and what his choices will be. Michael is trying to maintain the "highest" level on his evaluations as this will speak to the possibility of an earlier release in the future. Please pray that he continues to be surrounded by the right people and makes the right decisions. We thank you in advance from all your prayers and please know that you too can receive your daily refreshment from God, all you have to do is receive it!

Heidi