Garage sales ...rummage sales...

Garage sales, rummage sales...

I was reading this am in Exodus...the beginning of the story of the exodus from Egypt ...picturing the women asking for clothing as they prepared to leave...realizing that that clothing lasted for forty years in the wilderness...the Israelite women had no idea that the clothing they were taking would have to last that long...but God knew...He is a provider...

My mind runs in funny trails sometimes...I just pictured in my mind the piles of clothing we see at rummage or garage sales or even big store events as we plow through looking for the right sizes...holding up this or that, checking it out for size, color, likability ...did the Israelite women do this once in a while as their children grew...did they exchange all of those Egyptian articles among themselves?  Did they ever grumble over "outdated styles" as we do....or did they keep those comfortable clothes that sit at the front of our closets to be worn over and over again, because we feel good In them... And As the generation died off, there were lots of hand-me-downs! They went into the new land with clothes that lasted 40+ years!!! Was there new clothes waiting ?

I know this isn't deep theological stuff, but those people were like us, similar thoughts, needs, wants, desires...and God provided as he provides for me/us...He loved them as he loves me/us...
Thank YOU for your watch care...provision ....

Every woman is to ask her neighbor and any woman living in her house for articles of silver and gold and for clothing, which you will put on your sons and daughters. And so you will plunder the Egyptians.”
Exodus 3:22

Yet the Lord says, “During the forty years that I led you through the wilderness, your clothes did not wear out, nor did the sandals on your feet.
Deuteronomy 29:5


25 “Therefore I tell you, do not worry about your life, what you will eat or drink; or about your body, what you will wear. Is not life more than food, and the body more than clothes? 26 Look at the birds of the air; they do not sow or reap or store away in barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not much more valuable than they? 27 Can any one of you by worrying add a single hour to your life? 28 “And why do you worry about clothes? See how the flowers of the field grow. They do not labor or spin. 29 Yet I tell you that not even Solomon in all his splendor was dressed like one of these. 30 If that is how God clothes the grass of the field, which is here today and tomorrow is thrown into the fire, will he not much more clothe you—you of little faith? 31 So do not worry, saying, ‘What shall we eat?’ or ‘What shall we drink?’ or ‘What shall we wear?’ 32 For the pagans run after all these things, and your heavenly Father knows that you need them. 33 But seek first his kingdom and his righteousness, and all these things will be given to you as well. 34 Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about itself. Each day has enough trouble of its own.
Matthew 6:25-34