Joshua 5:9-12
The Lord said to Joshua, ‘Today I have rolled away from you the disgrace of Egypt.’ And so that place is called Gilgal to this day.
While the Israelites were encamped in Gilgal they kept the passover in the evening on the fourteenth day of the month in the plains of Jericho. On the day after the passover, on that very day, they ate the produce of the land, unleavened cakes and parched grain. The manna ceased on the day they ate the produce of the land, and the Israelites no longer had manna; they ate the crops of the land of Canaan that year.
Reflection
Someday we will reach the promised land. Our need for manna will be over. We will be one with the Manna of life forever and ever. Until that time we have the bread and the wine, the body and the blood, the salvation of Jesus and our relationship with Jesus. We experience the gifts of the Spirit and live in unity with the Church Universal and Eternal.
Someday we will reach this land, this city, this promise. Someday... but for now... we live here and now. For now... we walk with the Spirit, we relate with Jesus, we depend on the Father, in our lives in this place and in this time. Thanks be to God!
Prayer
Lord; through you alone can I come to that promised land... through you alone... today... tomorrow... and forever. --- Amen
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