However, some of them paid no attention to Moses; they kept part of it until morning, but it was full of maggots and began to smell. Moses was angry with them. The disobedience and its consequence are immediate. The manna that was not to be kept overnight rots — not as a divine punishment but as the natural expression of the manna's design. It was given for today; kept for tomorrow, it decays. The anger of Moses mirrors the frustration of any leader who watches his community test the limits of provision through distrust. James 1:17 says every good and perfect gift is from above. The manna is a perfect gift — sufficient, daily, miraculous. Those who distrust its daily sufficiency and hoard it discover that the gift cannot be hoarded; it can only be received.

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