The cook book in the Exodus could have been titled, ‘Forty meals from manna.’ Chapters 16 and 17 reveal how God provided food for a disgruntled people out of his sheer grace and love. In this chapter we see a variety of issues from the ease at which we can drift into grumbling to the purpose of God’s testing in our lives. Testing from God does not look for failure but trains for fruitfulness. The bigger picture of the chapters reveals that manna from heaven points to Jesus who is the ultimate and final bread of heaven. In tough days which seem like miles of desert, God encourages us to look towards the desert and see the glory of God in Christ. There is a spread table in the wilderness.