What Is It?

What is It?

Once again on an early morning walk I stopped for a moment to take in not just the scenery but also the sounds of the new day beginning. Among all that I heard it was the falling of the dew that got my attention. I closed my eyes and could hear each droplet falling from the tree leaves that arched over me. I then started to look around me and realized that dew was present on just about everything I could see. I have seen dew in the mornings my whole life but for some reason today had more meaning to me. I started to ask myself the question, “What is dew and what is its purpose?” After some scientific research and some Biblical research it appears that I wasn't the only one wondering what dew is.

Exodus 16:12-15

12 That evening vast numbers of quail flew in and covered the camp. And the next morning the area around the camp was wet with dew. 14 When the dew evaporated, a flaky substance as fine as frost blanketed the ground. 15 The Israelites were puzzled when they saw it. “What is it?” they asked each other. They had no idea what it was.

And Moses told them, “It is the food the Lord has given you to eat.

God and His provisions never cease to amaze me, while we are in our slumber of restless nights fighting off the demons of tomorrow that we hope will disappear when we wake up, He is preparing the new day for us, His new day. The word manna is really translated from the Hebrew text as, What is it? What is it, I’ll tell you what it is it is His provision for your day.

The struggle is real but so is the dew. Maybe you are at a dew point in your life. Maybe you need a touch of His cool misty dew to fall upon you.  When you are at that point where your belly is growling for peace and answers, don't ignore the dew, it’s falling for a reason. Step outside and stop looking at what the world is presenting to you but look at the sweet fresh dew that surrounds the very ground that you are standing on. That’s Him! Slow down, for one moment look around you at what He has been doing while you are sleeping He has been preparing a new day for you.  I told my husband early on in our marriage that it is the little things that matter, like the sweet notes left by the coffee pot, a daisy picked from the ground or brining me home just one can of my, at the time favorite drink “Brisk Tea.” One day he stopped for a moment and did a small thing. He drove this really large work truck that was difficult to maneuver in and out of small places, let me tell you I would take out the town of Paintsville if I had to drive something like that. Anyway, he walks in the house one evening with a smile on his face holding on can of cold Brisk tea. Cold because he stopped at the little store with little parking just to pick it up for me. I almost didn't want to drink it because it was so special, not the tea, but what he did, the extra step he took just to do a little thing.

We are way to busy and way to consumed with the world and its plight to take us down and out sometimes to stop and enjoy or behold the “little things” that God so purposely does for us even while we are sleeping and even though we don't bother to notice.

When you leave you house in the morning look for the dew but this time don't pass it by take your hand and touch it. Let the cool wet misty feeling of His daily manna touch your life. He has this! He always has, He is God. He is a God fierce enough to control raging seas and a God sweet enough to lay a blanket of dew out for us each morning. Enjoy his manna for your life today.

Lamentations 3:22-23New King James Version (NKJV)

22 

Through the Lord’s mercies we are not consumed,

Because His compassions fail not.

23 

They are new every morning;

Great is Your faithfulness.