They looked back instead of to the Lord when they faced the impossible. He delivered them from their bondage in a marvelous way,. He could be trusted in their present. Warning to us: don’t look back.

He fed them with manna for 40 years. Their clothes did not wear out. He gave them water out of a rock. Psalm 78:40-41 says, “How  often they provoked Him in the wilderness, and grieved Him in  the desert! Yes, again and again they tempted God, and limited the Holy One of Israel.”

Psalm 106:14-15 says, “But they lusted exceedingly in the wilderness, and tested God in the desert. And He gave them their request, but sent leanness into their soul.” We limit the Lord when we act independent of Him. 

God-breathed words are our daily manna. He has given it to us to sustain us in our trials, to fortify our faith when we face the impossible, and to bring course correction when we veer off His path of righteousness.