Instead of taking away my appetite, the Lord showed me the indispensable lesson of Deuteronomy 8, a review of Israel’s wilderness experience. While they craved for the food they had had in Egypt, God gave them manna. Manna was supernatural food, miraculously provided, and it was all they needed. But even a miracle did not stop the wanting of leeks, onions, garlic, watermelons, and fish. If He had given them what they naturally craved, they would never have learned to eat manna, they would never have acquired a taste for the bread which came down from heaven. God made them hungry on purpose—in
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