The Lord Sends Quail
And there went forth a wind from the LORD, and brought quails from the sea, and let them fall by the camp, as it were a day's journey on this side, and as it were a day's journey on the other side, round about the camp, and as it were two cubits high upon the face of the earth.
Numbers 11:31
King James Version
It is good for us to realize that, even when our lives seem hopeless and dark, Our Lord has a vast supply of strange animals to send our way.
When using this passage as a hopeful meditation, however, it is unwise to then continue reading and find that Our Lord did quite a bit of smiting as the people were eating the quail. The people of the Lord, thus smote, promised to go easy on the quail next time.
And so, in order to apply this story of the quail to our everyday lives, I would just urge all of you to, next time you see a bunch of quail coming your way, watch out for plague.
And I would just like to boast that I have actually seen a flock of live quail before. And escaped unsmote.
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