"Enough!" at Harderwyk - Exodus 16-18 - March 20, 2022

Resources For "Enough" From Each Harderwyk Preacher

I. New For This Week

Holy Uncertainity - At Fusion we will talk some about the struggle of uncertainty.  Pastor John Mark Comer wrote an excellent ebook toward the beginning of the pandemic on this topic titled, “We Don’t know What’s Going to Happen and That’s Okay: Living in Holy Uncertainty.” (September 2020)

Here is a helpful quote on this idea of holy uncertainty.

• "Holy Uncertainty Holy uncertainty is the capacity to live with a very loose grip – or no grip at all – on our plans and, more important, on the outcomes of our plans, because our security is rooted in a relational connection to God, not in a false sense of control. 
• Apprentices of Jesus who develop his capacity for holy uncertainty still make plans, but they are free – at an emotional level – from the need for those plans to come to pass. They don’t need to know what will happen, or not happen, or how long it will all take, because they are happy in God. 
• The mystics argue holy uncertainty is one of the reasons God takes so many through what St. John of the Cross called “the dark night of the soul” – a desert-like season of dry, arid spirituality where there’s a stripping down of our emotional enjoyment of God himself, not in cruelty, but in love. The dark night is designed by our Guide to to set us free from our fear-based need for control.
• In the dark night, we realize that we’re not in control of our relationship with God; God is. 
• We come to accept that Christian spirituality is not a formula for happiness or a self-improvement project or a religion (in the negative sense of that word); it’s a relationship of rescue. And we’re not in charge of that relationship or our rescue."  (Comer, p. 17)

Ukranian Church Prays Psalm 31 is a three-minute video produced by Ukrainian Bible Society and Church of Christ the Savior in Kiev and made available to us by the American Bible Society.  CLICK HERE to join with Ukranian believers in praying the Scripture.

Celebration Sermon Outline - CLICK HERE for this Sunday's Sermon Outline.

II. From The Commentaries On This Passage

From Philip Graham Ryken in “Exodus - Saved for God’s Glory”

“There are many things to learn from the manna and the quail, but the basic lesson is this: God provides for his people, giving us whatever we truly need. And since he is our all-sufficient provider, he himself is all we need.

God sent the bread to sanctify his people. Manna had the educational purpose of teaching them to depend on God for all their needs. Later Moses explained that although manna was a physical miracle, its purpose was to teach the spiritual lesson that God is the source of all our life. The prophet said, “He humbled you, causing you to hunger and then feeding you with manna, which neither you nor your fathers had known, to teach you that man does not live on bread alone but on every word that comes from the mouth of the Lord” (Deut. 8:3).

These words immediately remind us of Jesus, who quoted them to Satan in the wilderness. Jesus had been fasting for forty days and forty nights. Like the Israelites, he was desperate for food; so the devil tempted him to turn the stones into bread. But Jesus answered, “It is written, ‘Man does not live on bread alone, but on every word that comes from the mouth of God’ ” (Matt. 4:4). Jesus knew that our deepest needs are not physical but spiritual. What we really need is God, and when we have him, we have everything we need.”

III. Ongoing Resources

1) Spiritual Formation Resources Page - CLICK HERE - This is still a work in progress, but be a part as we look to build

2) Scotty Smith’s Heavenward Daily Prayers - CLICK HERE - to see the daily prayer blog of Scotty Smith.  You will see an option to have them delivered to your email inbox each day as well.  

3) Simple Lectio Divina Overview - CLICK HERE - for a simple introduction of the spiritual practice of a more personal way of experience the Word through contemplation and reflection.