My brother Rod used to help run a church outreach program for kids called Powerblast. His group which included bodybuilders would put on strength performances at churches for young folks. Bend bars, break stacks of wood, lift a table on their back that had lots of people sitting on it, that sort of thing. Afterward, kids would rush up to the strong men. Some would ask the same question of any one of the men “Can you pick me up?” That identifies as a silly question. What did they just observe? Of course, he could pick them up!

The children of Isreal, who had experienced God’s delivering power, while in the desert asked God silly questions.

“Did you bring us out here to starve?” “Can you prepare a table in the wilderness?”

After all the demonstrations of power in Egypt, after crossing the Red Sea, and drowning Pharaoh's army the children of Israel, who were roaming around the wilderness, and yet being fed, asked God these silly questions, which made God furious with them. As we go thru this "wilderness" we are currently in, are we asking God silly questions? Are we questioning his provision, his love? His willingness to care for us?

Psalm 78: 13-33

17 But they continued to sin against him,

rebelling in the wilderness against the Most High.

18 They willfully put God to the test

by demanding the food they craved.

19 They spoke against God;

they said, “Can God really

spread a table in the wilderness?

20 True, he struck the rock,

and water gushed out,

streams flowed abundantly,

but can he also give us bread?

Can he supply meat for his people?”

21 When the Lord heard them, he was furious;

his fire broke out against Jacob,

and his wrath rose against Israel,

22 for they did not believe in God

or trust in his deliverance.

23 Yet he gave a command to the skies above

and opened the doors of the heavens;

24 he rained down manna for the people to eat,

he gave them the grain of heaven.

25 Human beings ate the bread of angels;

he sent them all the food they could eat.

26 He let loose the east wind from the heavens

and by his power made the south wind blow.

27 He rained meat down on them like dust,

birds like sand on the seashore.

28 He made them come down inside their camp,

all around their tents.

29 They ate till they were gorged—

he had given them what they craved.

30 But before they turned from what they craved,

even while the food was still in their mouths,

31 God’s anger rose against them;

he put to death the sturdiest among them,

cutting down the young men of Israel.

32 In spite of all this, they kept on sinning;

in spite of his wonders, they did not believe.

33 So he ended their days in futility

and their years in terror.