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!