True Manna

Manna


Exodus 16
Manna in Hebrew means “man” which means “who or what” and the word means “What is it?”

Jesus Christ is our manna.

Deut 8:3
And He humbled you and let you be hungry, and fed you with manna which you did not know, nor did your fathers know, that He might make you understand that man does not live by bread alone, but man lives by everything that proceeds out of the mouth of the Lord.
Matt 4:4
“But He answered and said, ‘It is written, Man shall not live on bread alone, but on every word that proceeds out of the mouth of God,’”

He knows what it means to be hungry physically.
Matt 4:2
After He had fasted forty days and forty nights, He then became hungry.


He also knows the hunger of the human soul to fill the emptiness within it. This is a deep and desperate hunger that is never satisfied by anything of the world. It gnaws away at the poor as well as the wealthy; no material thing can satisfy it.

But praise to You, a Living God and Father, Jesus Christ is able and willing to come in like a flood and fill every dry and empty earthen vessel with His love, faith, and peace.

The Israelites were given manna to sustain them every day for 40 years and to demonstrate to them Your provision and care.

The JFB commentary had some interesting observations:
They gathered it and if they gathered much, when measured, had no excess, and he who gathered little had no lack. No matter what they gathered, it measured out to the need of the number of persons in the tent.
( Ex 16:18)
They would grind it between two millstones or beat it in the mortar, and boil it in the pot and make cakes with it. (Num 11:8)
The taste was as the taste of cakes baked with oil and like wafers with honey. (Ex 16:31)
And the manna ceased on the day after they had eaten some of the produce of the land, so that the sons of Israel no longer had manna… (Joshua 5:12)

Jesus will always provided our need.
Jesus was “crushed for our iniquities”.
Jesus is sweet as honey.
Jesus is always with us in this earthly journey of ours until the day we know Him fully in our heavenly home.

Thank you Father for the Bread of heaven that daily provides true life to your children.

Jesus is our manna!

Confidence

EX 14

:22 And the sons of Israel went through the midst of the sea on the dry land, and the waters were like a wall to them on their right hand and on their left.


 :28 and the waters returned and covered the chariots and the horsemen, in respect to Pharaoh’s entire army that had gone into the sea after them; not even one of them remained.
:29 But the sons of Israel walked on dry land through the midst of the sea, and the waters were like a wall to them on their right hand and on their left.
Wow!
You are such a powerful and faithful God!! I was thinking that the Israelites certainly would not have ever thought of going through the sea themselves. It was a path that they would not even have considered.

And as your children today have choices to make in this earthly life of ours, the courage to make the best choices will often depend on our confidence and trust to rest in You, our Father who cares deeply, who loves us deeply, and who is more than willing to direct our path. (Prov 16:9) The mind of man plans his way but the Lord directs his steps.

When fear tries to keep us from stepping out and following Your leading, You enable us to remember the Red Sea experience and the Mighty God who delivered his people and receive His grace and love to go the way You desires us to follow.

Your desire is for your children to put all their confidence in You, the one and only Almighty God. And Almighty you truly are.

Jer 32:27 “Behold, I am the Lord God, the God of all flesh; is anything too difficult for Me?”