Fresh Manna was the daily bread that God provided the children of Israel shortly after their exodus from Israel. For forty years, God would cause it to rain down manna in the morning, and quails in the evening. For forty years, God supplied their needs, and it should have been enough to satisfy. The incredible thing was, they never had to worry about stale bread because every morning (with the exception of the sabbath), the manna was new, fresh, straight from heaven's bakery. The children of Israel's only job was to go out in the morning, and gather enough for the day.
God is still so faithful. One song poet wrote, "Morning by morning, new mercies I see." Every day, God is still providing fresh manna. What manna? From the word of life, from God's word he gives us what we need, sufficient for the day.
Read Christ's words from John 6.
Then Jesus said unto them, Verily, verily, I say unto you, Moses gave you not that bread from heaven; but my Father giveth you the true bread from heaven.
For the bread of God is he which cometh down from heaven, and giveth life unto the world.
Then said they unto him, Lord, evermore give us this bread.
I am the living bread which came down from heaven: if any man eat of this bread, he shall live for ever: and the bread that I will give is my flesh, which I will give for the life of the world.
John 1
In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.
The same was in the beginning with God.
And the Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us, (and we beheld his glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father,) full of grace and truth.
Jesus Christ is our daily bread. The word of God, is our daily bread. I am so grateful to a God, who will meet our daily need for fresh bread, for fresh manna. Of all the things I long for in life, nothing is greater than my desire for God's presence, his guidance, his favor, his words. In a world where flesh and sin meet us as soon as we wake to the day, I thank almighty God for receiving fresh, heavenly food, daily. My job, my duty, my requirement, is to go out and receive it. When I rise, every day, it's there for me to have I just have to go and pick it up. So, yes Lord, give me this day my daily bread, my fresh manna and I shall be filled.
Exodus 16: 4 Then said the Lord unto Moses, Behold, I will rain bread from heaven for you; and the people shall go out and gather a certain rate every day, that I may prove them, whether they will walk in my law, or no.
18 And when they did mete it with an omer, he that gathered much had nothing over, and he that gathered little had no lack; they gathered every man according to his eating.
Luke 11: 3 Give us day by day our daily bread.
Job 23: 10 But he knoweth the way that I take: when he hath tried me, I shall come forth as gold.
11 My foot hath held his steps, his way have I kept, and not declined.
12 Neither have I gone back from the commandment of his lips; I have esteemed the words of his mouth more than my necessary food.
Be blessed!
JAL
Great blog!
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