You gave them bread from heaven for their hunger and brought water for them out of the rock for their thirst, and you told them to go in to possess the land that you had sworn to give them. But they and our fathers acted presumptuously and stiffened their neck and did not obey your commandments. They refused to obey and were not mindful of the wonders that you performed among them, but they stiffened their neck and appointed a leader to return to their slavery in Egypt. But you are a God ready to forgive, gracious, and merciful, slow to anger, and abounding and steadfast loved, and did not forsake them, Even when they had made for themselves a golden calf and said, this is your God who brought you up out of Egypt and had committed great blasphemies, you and your great mercies did not forsake them in the wilderness. The pillar of cloud to lead them in the way did not depart from them by day, nor the pillar of fire by night to light for them the way by which they should go. You gave your good spirit to instruct them and did not withhold your manna from their mouth and gave them water for their thirst. Forty years, you sustained them in the wilderness, and they lacked nothing. Their clothes did not wear out, and their feet did not swell. Nehemiah 9:15-21.

O Lord Jesus Christ, illumine my mind to understand with exceeding joy the Father's eternal love, the sure provisions of the covenant of grace, and all the glories of your finished work. May he give me faith to see my name engraven on your heart. My soul and body assuredly redeemed by your blood. My life of sinfulness, gloriously covered by your life of pure obedience. Amen. Henry Law.