Joshua 4:10 "On the evening of the fourteenth day of the month, while camped at Gilgal on the plains of Jericho, the Israelites ate the passover" "The manna dried up"
The Israelites spent went through several ceremonial procedures: circumcision, passover, and then they eat of the produce of the promised land. Before they are able to experience the full implications of being the people of God, they must be ceremonially clean. They celebrate God's deliverance (in a dare I say liturgical way) and only then can they eat the produce of the new land.
I need to remember that I'm just as tied to the past as I am the future. I don't want to focus on either of them to the exclusion of the other. I must remember all of God's faithfulness in the past. I can never forget where I came from. But I don't live in the past. The manna dries up. We're not meant to eat manna forever. We must be people who look to the future blessing.
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