Bread From Heaven

Exodus 16:4 "Then the Lord said unto Moses, behold, I will rain bread from heaven and the people shall go out and gather at a certain rate every day..."

Perhaps the most important part was that it was from heaven! If it's not from heaven then it's not real bread and it will never really feed. All the eloquent speaking and good preaching might thrill the soul, but it'll never fill the soul. It must be from the heart of God to really feed.

Manna, this spiritual bread is not a commodity. It can't be brought or sold. It is a gift. All it needs is to be received. The people in the wilderness didn't have to invent it or produce it; all they had to do was to "gather it".

Manna was never found in Egypt, (the world), nor was it any longer needed in the Promised Land, (eternity).

Manna was given only to a very specific people; God's people, and only for a very specific time; only while they were journeying to the Promised Land.

Manna was a complete food. They needed nothing else. They say the reindeer above the Arctic Circle eat just a certain type of moss that grows in that climate. They eat nothing else, it's so full of nutrients.

That is much like our buffalo in Canada. In the early days the buffalo herds would graze on a short, very hearty grass called prairie wool. Most grasses send their nutrients down to the roots for the winter, but not prairie wool. It was a complete food for the buffalo. They were strong, healthy and could face the fierce blizzards of the open prairie.

Manna means "what is it?" Yes, what is it that keeps us alive? What is it that makes us grow, helps us to be healthy and strong, enabling us to face the fierce storms of life. What is it? Yes, it's the bread from heaven. 

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