The purposes why God allows our families to go through the trials in a desert are …
- To humble us and to test us in order to know what is in our hearts, whether or not we would keep his commands (Dt. 8:2),
- To teach us that “man does not live on bread alone but on every word that comes from the mouth of the Lord” (v.3),
- To do good for us in the end (v.16)