May the Lord be pleased to answer our prayer
this morning. Let's open together, please, to
Exodus, the 16th chapter, as we think about the
manna in the wilderness. God has committed himself
to provide what his children need so as to care
for them in the center of his will. Is it not
interesting? that oftentimes God's provision
itself becomes a test to us. I think of the dear
lady, elderly, who was unable to care for herself
and who was placed into a nursing home, a retirement
center, whatever the proper name is these days.
for such a place where she could be cared for.
There, her laundry was done for her, her meals
were done for her, brought to her room, and she
was tenderly, lovingly cared for. But there was
a price. She had to give up some of her things.
Not everything would fit in that room. She had
to give up some of her independence. The neighborhood
that she had known for so many years was no longer
hers Her privacy Her own cooking She no longer
could taste that and it tasted a lot better than
that institutional food But you see God provided
for her but that provision became a test And
almost every time that I visited her before she
died she complained God's provision became a
test for her. So often that's true. I talked
recently with some dear friends of mine with
whom it was my privilege to work on a staff several
years ago. They left our staff and went to work
with the National Youth Ministry and were missionaries.
And as is typical of some missionaries at least,
they had a difficult time raising their support
and keeping that support level up. Often they
sent out letters expressing the dire circumstances
they were in. Their car with 200 ,000 miles on
it had given out and now they were going to have
to do something in a hurry. You've had those
kind of letters too. Well during the last 10
years, she has been working on a series of children's
books. in her spare time. She had a concept that
she began working with which she called Christopher
Churchmouse. She put together some stories, tapes,
and began to send that out to publishers and
was rejected 17 times. That got so bad her husband
began to hide the rejection slips under the seat
of the car until he felt that she could take
another one. And then she got some counsel from
someone who has published a good deal and she
followed it and sent it in. And she is now in
contract for 12 books. The first two were published
this summer and they went through over 100 ,000
copies of it in two and a half weeks. God has
provided for their needs financially all of a
sudden because of the royalties that she receives
from the books. I doubt that I'll get any more
letters saying we need a new car, because they
really are cared for pretty well. And she has
about 14 more books that the publisher hasn't
even contracted yet. So she's cared for, he's
cared for, until their retirement, I'm fairly
sure. But I would predict that their newfound
prosperity will be a test to them, of a different
sort. God's provision often is a test to us,
and so it was with ancient Israel. They had camped
at Elam for a period of time, and from there
they set out. All the congregation of the sons
of Israel came to the wilderness of Sin, which
is between Elam and Sinai on the fifteenth day
of the second month after their departure from
the land of Egypt. And the whole congregation
of the sons of Israel grumbled against Moses
and Aaron in the wilderness. And the sons of
Israel said to them, Would that we had died by
the Lord's hand in the land of Egypt, when we
sat by the pots of meat, when we ate bread to
the full. For you have brought us out into this
wilderness to kill this whole assembly with hunger.
Oh, brother. Then the Lord said to Moses, Behold,
I will rain bread from heaven for you, and the
people shall go out and gather a day's portion
every day, that I may test them whether or not
they will walk in my instruction." Oftentimes,
God's provision is a test. Tests are a part of
life, aren't they? You remember those tests you
had in school? Some of you are still there. I
feel sorry for you. I remember the stress and
the pain of those tests very well. But that's
part of schooling. Did you ever audition for
a choir? Or for a part in a play? That's a test.
Or you think about the tryouts for athletic teams.
Or the test that you have to take for some employment
opportunities. Obtaining a driver's license requires
a test. But the most important tests in life
are the spiritual ones that come from God. Too
often, if you're like me, you don't realize you're
in the middle of a test until you're through
it. And then in retrospect, you look back and
you say, boy, I wish I had seen that at the time.
I wish I had responded this way or that. were
all the same way. The manna which God provided
for the children of Israel was His provision
for them. In recalling this incident, I pray
that God will open our hearts to the lessons
which He would teach us about His provision for
our need too. The first lesson that I see in
our scripture today is this, that the manna was
provided by grace. The manna that God gave them
was in response not to their faith, not to their
being good and righteous, but it was in response
to actually to their unbelief and their grumbling.
The manna was provided by the grace of God. God
provided not only manna, but he provided meat.
And the fact is that they deserved neither of
these. because of themselves. God is here showing
to us that when he provides for our needs, it
is an act of grace on his part. Because you see,
God must always deal with mankind according to
grace or judge us. For we are an undeserving
race of sinners. Sometimes I hear people say,
well, I wish God would be fair. Friend, I'm glad
God isn't fair. For if God were fair, we would
get what we deserved. I'm glad that God is gracious
and that he gives us what we do not deserve.
Here, against the dark background of rebellion
and complaint, God's grace is all the more vivid
and striking. As the book of Romans says, where
sin abounded, grace did what? Much more abound.
God's grace is sufficient for any sinner. And
as a matter of fact, God's grace is his only
hope. The manna that we see here is actually
a picture Or, to use another more technical term,
it is a type of God's provision in His Son, Jesus
Christ. Occasionally in the Old Testament, there
are such striking and clear pictures of Jesus
Christ that it's referred to in the New Testament
in terms of Him and His ministry. Bible commentators
call those types of Christ. pictures of Christ.
We know this is a type of Christ because of what
Jesus Himself said, and I'd like you to turn
with me there to the Gospel of John in the sixth
chapter. Jesus has just performed one of His
most amazing signs. It is the feeding of a great
multitude of people. And following that occasion,
there comes some teaching from our Lord, not
on that same day, but the next day, as the multitudes
came to Him. Jesus says in verse 26, in a confrontational
manner, truly, truly I say to you, you seek me
not because you saw signs, rather, but because
you ate the loaves and were filled. You seek
me not because you saw signs, but because you
ate the loaves and were filled. You do not work
for the food which perishes, but for the food
which endures to eternal life. Which the Son
of Man shall give to you, for on Him the Father,
even God, has set His seal." In other words,
God had authenticated. God had established the
authority of His Son. They said to Him, what
shall we do that we may work the works of God?
Notice Jesus had said to them, do the work. They
said, what are the works? Jesus says in verse
29, this is the work of God, that you believe
in Him whom He has sent. So you see, work is
not something that they would do in the sense
of some effort or merit on their part. It was
a matter of faith. That is the work of God. And
they said to him, what then do you do for a sign
that we may see and believe you? What work do
you perform? Our fathers ate the manna in the
wilderness. As it is written, he gave them bread
out of heaven to eat. Jesus therefore said to
them, truly, truly, I say to you, it is not Moses
who has given you the bread out of heaven. But
it is my Father who gives you the true bread
out of heaven. That is bread that will truly
meet your need, truly satisfy. For the bread
of God is that which comes down out of heaven
and gives life to the world. They said to him,
Lord evermore give us this bread. And Jesus said
to them, I am the bread of life. He who comes
to me shall not hunger, and he who believes in
me shall never thirst. But I said to you that
you have seen me, and yet you do not believe.
All that the Father gives me shall come to me.
And the one who comes to me I will certainly
not cast out, for I have come down from heaven
not to do my own will, but the will of him who
sent me. And this is the will of him who sent
me, that all that he has given me of all that
he has given me, I lose nothing but raise it
up on the last day." Our Lord is saying here
that God's will is not only that he save those
who believe in him, but that he preserve them
and that one day they be raised from the dead
by his power. For this is the will of my Father
that everyone who beholds the Son and believes
in him may have eternal life and I myself will
raise him up on that on the last day. And so
our Lord Jesus Himself says, I am the manna.
I am the bread from heaven given by the Father.
And He says, He who beholds me and believes on
me, to Him I give eternal life and preservation
and resurrection. Well, if you'll skip on down
to verse 48, He says again, I am the bread of
life. Your fathers ate the man in the wilderness
and they died. It was temporal bread you see.
This is the bread which comes down out of heaven
so the one may eat of it and not die. I am the
living bread that came down out of heaven. If
anyone eats of this bread he shall live forever
and the bread also which I shall give for the
life of the world is my flesh. The Jews therefore
began to argue with one another, saying, how
can this man give us his flesh to eat? You see,
they did not understand the spiritual implication
of what Jesus was saying. They thought only in
physical, material terms. Jesus therefore said
to them, truly, truly, I say to you, unless you
eat the flesh of the Son of Man and drink his
blood, you have no life in yourselves. He who
eats my flesh and drinks my blood has eternal
life and I will raise him up on the last day."
Now you can imagine how the Jews might have responded.
In fact, they did respond to this. They did not
understand what he was saying. After all, they
had a law in Leviticus that said you shall not
eat blood and here's a man claiming to be the
bread from heaven who says you must eat my flesh
and drink my blood. They could not put all that
together. And still there are people today who
can't put all of this together. And they say
that Jesus is here saying that in communion,
what they call the mass, you must eat his body
and drink his blood if you would have eternal
life. Is that what Jesus is saying? Not at all.
Not at all. What Jesus is saying here is that
just as we eat and drink food, to appropriate
it for our physical needs, So, we must partake
of Him in a spiritual sense to meet our spiritual
needs. We have to appropriate Him by faith. You
say, well, where does faith enter in here? Well,
notice back in verse 47. He said, truly, truly,
I say to you, he who believes has eternal life.
Jesus equates believing to eating his flesh and
drinking his blood in verse 54. So he is not
talking about some physical act, but he is saying
that to believe on him in a saving sense is spiritually
what eating and drinking is to us physically.
It is an appropriation of a provision that is
made for our need. Jesus Christ is the living
bread. the true bread that meets the real needs
in the hearts and souls of men and women. That
belief that Jesus is talking about here is not
mere intellectual understanding of Him. It is
not an awareness of the facts about Him. But
it is an appropriation of Him. That's why earlier
in the Gospel of John, belief is equated with
receiving. the Son of Man. It means to embrace,
to take to oneself this truth and to go beyond
the point of saying that He is the Savior, to
be able to say He is my Savior, I take Him as
my own. He is the provision for our spiritual
needs. Just as God provided manna for the children
of Israel by grace. So, God has by grace provided
for us that true bread from heaven. There are
several parallels that we can point out between
the manna and Jesus. In the first place, it is
a gift from God. The Father sent the Son to be
the Savior of the world, for God so loved the
world that He gave His only begotten Son. The
bread from heaven is a gift to us. And then it
is heavenly in its origin. It comes from heaven.
The manna in the wilderness was not a concoction
of the Jewish chefs. It was not imported from
Egypt through the wilderness, but it came down
from heaven. And so it points to the heavenly
origin of Jesus Christ. He is not a mere man.
But He is the Son of God come from heaven. The
man who was miraculous in His coming, it simply
appeared there. And so our Savior was miraculous
in His coming, being conceived of the Holy Spirit
within the womb of Mary. His birth, unlike any
other birth in the history of the world, and
necessarily so, to preserve Him. from the inherited
sin of Adam. And he was preserved from the sin
of Mary by the Holy Spirit within her womb. Miraculous
in coming. The manna was mysterious in nature.
They awoke in the morning when the dew had lifted.
Left behind was this substance. They said, what
is it? Which is our English word, mana, essentially.
What is it? And it's described to us as being
white or grayish in color. As being soft and
round and small. And it's described as having
the taste of honey on wafers. Not bad. Or cakes
baked with oil. Good pancakes. You don't get
much better than that. That's what it was like.
And they were able to touch it and together it.
Now there have been various natural explanations
for this. None of them fit. None of them do.
In his book, The Bible is History, Keller says
that it is the result of the tamarisk tree over
in that part of the world. And it is true that
there is a substance that comes from the tamarisk
tree during the summer months of July and August
basically each year. But it's described differently
in the Bible than what the tamarisk tree produces.
And furthermore, it was not just two months a
year that it was available to them. It was for
40 years, every morning. I mean, that's some
bakery. And so God provided this mysterious substance
for them. And I would say to you that our Savior
likewise is mysterious in His nature. Can you
understand how God, the infinite God, could unite
Himself to sinless humanity without compromising
either His deity or His humanity? Fully God and
fully man at the same time. That is a mystery.
The Apostle says great is the mystery of godliness.
God was manifest in the flesh. That is a mystery.
And then the manna came in the darkness. As the
people slept, it appeared. And so our Savior
came into a world of moral darkness that He might
be there, here. to meet the needs of sinful man.
The manna was a provision of the grace of God.
And my friend Jesus Christ is fully a provision
of the grace of God for every sinner who will
believe on Him. And then I notice a second lesson.
It is this, that the manna was easily available.
Going back now again to the book of Exodus, in
the 16th chapter, Let us skip on down to the
13th verse. So it came about at evening that
the quails came up and covered the camp. Now
we're not talking about the quails this morning.
I don't like quails as well as I like pancakes.
So I decided to talk about the manna instead.
And in the morning there was a layer of dew around
the camp. And when the layer of dew evaporated,
behold on the surface of the wilderness, there
was a fine flake -like thing, fine as the frost
on the ground. And when the sons of Israel sought,
they said to one another, what is it? For they
did not know what it was. And Moses said to them,
it is the bread which Yahweh has given you to
eat. This is what the Lord has commanded, gather
of it every man as much as he should eat. You
shall take an omer, a piece, according to the
number of persons each of you has in his tent."
An omer of being about two quarts. And the sons
of Israel did so, and some gathered much and
some little. And when they measured it with an
omer, he who had gathered much had no excess,
and he who had gathered little had no lack. Every
man gathered as much as he should eat. And Moses
said to them, Let no man leave any of it until
morning. But they did not listen to Moses. And
some left part of it until morning, and it bred
worms and became foul. And Moses was angry with
them, understandably so. And they gathered it
morning by morning, every man as much as he should
eat, but when the sun grew hot it would melt.
Now it came about on the sixth day that they
gathered twice as much bread, two omers for each
one. When all the leaders of the congregation
came and told Moses, then he said to them, this
is what the Lord meant. Tomorrow is a Sabbath
observance, a holy Sabbath to the Lord. Bake
what you will bake and boil what you will boil
and all that is left over put aside to be kept
until morning. Here we understand that this was
a substance that could be baked or boiled or
used in a variety of ways. It became to them
a basic staple. for their diet. They did have
other things to eat by the way. They had large
herds of animals and undoubtedly they were able
to procure and the fact the Bible says they did
procure food along the way from some of the nations
that they came to contact with. But this became
the potatoes or this became the wheat or whatever
you want to say of their diet. This was the basic
staple the man of the God provided. And so they
put it aside until morning, as Moses had ordered,
and it did not become foul, nor was there any
worm in it. And Moses said, Eat it today, for
today is a Sabbath to the Lord. Today you will
not find it in the field. Six days you shall
gather it, but on the seventh day, the Sabbath,
there will be none. And it came about on the
seventh day that some of the people went out
together, but they found none. God closed the
cafeteria that morning. This is a record of the
first blue laws. in the Bible. They closed everything
down on the Sabbath. And then the Lord said to
Moses, how long do you refuse to keep my commandments
and my instructions? See the Lord has given you
the Sabbath, therefore he gives you bread for
two days on the sixth day. Remember, or rather,
remain every man in his place. Let no man go
out of his place on the seventh day. So the people
rested on the seventh day. And the house of Israel
named it Manah. and it was like coriander seed,
small and round, white, and its taste was like
wafers with honey. The manna was easily available
to the people. They did not have to take a long
journey to get it. It was not placed on a mountaintop
somewhere where they had to climb up and bring
it back. They did not have to send for it, but
God served it right at their tents. So all that
they had to do was to get up in the morning,
go outside of their tent, and begin to pick up
the manna. It was readily available. From this
I would point out that Jesus Christ likewise
is available to all and to any who will call
upon Him. Our Savior has not separated Himself
from man by rituals, by saints or popes or churches.
but rather he stands at the door of the heart
and he knocks, asking to gain entrance. He is
available to any who will call upon him, for
whosoever will call upon the name of the Lord
shall be saved. My friend today, if you have
not yet received him, he is here and he is available
for you. But the fact is that there are some
to whom he is not available. He is not available
to every person in the world because there are
many who have not yet even heard his name. They
cannot call upon him of whom they have not heard.
And they cannot hear unless someone tells them,
unless a preacher be sent to them. That is the
reason that we seek to make him known. That's
the reason some 60 of you were present yesterday
for the seminar in evangelistic Bible studies.
Because you want to be equipped that those in
your neighborhood might surely have the opportunity
to hear, that they might believe, that Jesus
might be available to them. That's the reason
others of you are active in your witness, that
Jesus might be available. presented to them.
That's the reason we're having a missions festival
in a couple of weeks, so that we can understand
again and remind ourselves the importance of
getting the message of Jesus Christ to the uttermost
parts of the earth, especially to those places
where He is not available today. Understand that
they are lost and without hope of salvation.
Until the message of Christ be brought to them
and then they have available that living manna
And then thirdly I notice in our study that the
manna had to be gathered This was really the
test of God's provision God said every day in
the morning Every day in the morning If they
waited until afternoon, the manna had melted
and they went hungry. And it had to be done every
day. Some of them didn't believe that. Moses
got angry at them. They didn't believe it. They
tried to store it for the next day and it became
foul and wormy. There were no artificial preservatives
in the manna. So every day, early in the day,
they had to go out and gather it. That was God's
test. God wanted to know, as He provided this
for them, would they obey Him? And as we have
seen, some did not learn that lesson early. You
know, part of the process of God in maturing
us is the test that He puts us through. God graciously
provides for our needs. But then he puts us through
tests and trials. Will we do what he tells us
to do? Will we obey him? Many of us, indeed all
of us from time to time, are like those people
who try to hold over the man until the next day.
We have to learn the lesson the hard way. If
we do not do what God tells us to do, there are
consequences. In this case, It was the fact that
the manna was unedible. It was not usable. There
are consequences to disobedience. Parents try
to instill that into the lives of their children.
Boy, it's tough. It's tough to get them to understand
it. It's tough to be consistent at it. The children
need to learn that when they don't obey, there
are consequences. And often those consequences
are the natural ones of their disobedience. That's
the best kind of consequence, because it teaches
obedience. We are the children of God, and when
you and I do not obey what He tells us to do,
then He allows us to suffer the consequences
until we learn to obey. The manna here was on
the ground, but it was no good on the ground.
It had to be gathered, and it had to be eaten.
The point is that it had to be appropriated by
each person for his own good, his own response.
And so I return again to that emphasis, the fact
that each person must make his own provision
of Christ. He must trust in the Savior that God
has given on his behalf. It is not good enough
if the husband or wife has done it. The other
spouse likewise must do it. It is not good if
the parents have done it for the children. The
children themselves must believe. Each person
must make provision. The manna had to be gathered
and so the living bread, Jesus Christ, must be
appropriated by personal faith. And then the
manna, I notice, provided for their needs throughout
the pilgrimage according to verse 35. The sons
of Israel ate the manna forty years until they
came to an inhabited land. They ate the manna
until they came to the border of the land of
Canaan. What an abundant supply this was from
God. I don't know who was back there with a scale
in those days, but someone has calculated that
this was about 4500 tons of manna a day. Remember,
God is feeding in excess of 2 million people
every day with this stuff. Or to put it a different
way, and again I'm not sure who measured this,
but I guess someone smart enough did, it was
over a million tons each year. And if you put
it into railroad cars, it would have been a train
of 240 cars arriving at the camp of Israel every
day for 40 years. That was God's provision. And
it was all that they needed throughout their
pilgrimage. So I want to say to you that the
living bread, Jesus Christ, is all that you and
I are going to need throughout all of our pilgrimage.
All of our need is met in Him. He is the all
-sufficient Savior. We find what we need in Him
not only for our sin, but also for our disappointments,
our questions, our fears in life. He is all that
we need. As we spiritually feed upon Him, we
find sustenance for life's journey. How is it
that we spiritually feed on this living bread?
Well, of course we do that at the moment of salvation
when we partake of Him. But then throughout our
lives we are called upon to feed upon Him and
to find our sufficiency in Jesus Christ. How
do we do that? Well, we do that by going to this
book, which is the fullness of the revelation
of Him. As He is the living Word, so this is
the written Word. This book, the Word of God,
is the bread for our souls as we find Jesus Christ
revealed in its pages. Our practice needs to
be daily, coming to the book. and partaking of
it so that we may spiritually partake of Jesus
Christ. There are sweets in this book that can
be found only by regular and persistent eating
of it. As Isaac Watts said, the hill of Zion
yields a thousand sacred sweets before we reach
the heavenly fields. or walk the golden streets.
The heavenly sweets that God provides for us
are found here in these pages. But very frankly,
there are a couple of dangers that you and I
face as we think about this. The first is that
we allow our fellowship with Christ the true
bread to become a careless fellowship. For when
we do that, our spiritual experience becomes
sour and unappetizing. Spiritual knowledge that
is not applied to life, that is not partaken
of, eventually breeds worms and it spoils the
life. How tragic to meet a Christian who knows
all of the answers. who can win the Bible trivia
game, but whose life is sour and bitter and not
tasty and poisoned. And not only does he poison
himself, but he poisons those around him. When
our fellowship with Jesus Christ becomes careless,
then our spiritual experience becomes sour and
unappetizing. That is a danger that all of us
face. Most of us here today know more than we're
practicing. Now in one sense, that's normal.
Because we have to know it before we can practice
it. But the danger is that we allow just the
head knowledge of spiritual facts to substitute
for experiencing fellowship with Jesus Christ.
The Bible was not given to us merely as a book
of facts to know. It was given that we might
know the person that it reveals. Do you know
Him? Because of your regular daily being in the
Word? And as you know Him, are you seeking that
the Spirit of God would enable you to be like
Him? Are you putting to practice in your life
what you're learning in the Word? And the second
danger that I can think of is growing dissatisfied
with what God has given us in Christ. You say,
oh, how could that ever be? It can happen to
us just as it happened with the children of Israel.
Excited they were in Exodus 16, but you come
over to Numbers chapter 11 and you find that
they were absolutely up to here with the manna.
They said, we are tired of this stuff. And so
it can be for the Christian. We become dissatisfied
with what God has given us in Christ. And like
the children of Israel who look back to Egypt
and they said, oh, that we had some of that fish.
And that we had some of those leeks and onions
and the garlic. They longed for that diet of
the world again. For the moment, they didn't
care about their liberty. The important thing
was the fun and the taste that they had in bondage.
And so it can be with us, folks. We can look
back to the world from when we were enslaved
to sin. When we were in bondage to it, and we
say, oh, I wish I could go back and have some
of that fun again. And we become dissatisfied
with what God has provided us in Jesus Christ.
That turns us into grumbling Christians, just
as it turned the Israelites into grumbling, complaining
people. And they face the displeasure of God
as surely as we shall. Are you finding in your
Christian experience the sweetness and the freshness
of Christ? Or has your Christian life and experience
somehow turned on you so that today, quite honestly,
it's sour. It's breeding worms. It's poisoned.
It's fouled. It's boring. That can happen to
any one of us, any one of us. And when we recognize
that it has, our need is to immediately acknowledge
it, confess it, and to throw out that manna that
has soured and to come to the Lord afresh, that
we might have that new provision. fresh manna.
Some of you have had the experience of losing
loved ones and when that happens you begin to
go back and look for things that happened or
letters that were written or things that were
noticed by that loved one shortly before he or
she died. When my mother died a year ago, I was
looking around the kitchen where she died. And
over on the refrigerator, there was a poem that
she had put up with one of those magnetic things.
And here's what it said. I got up early one morning
and hustled right into the day. I had so much
to accomplish that I didn't have time to pray.
Problems just rumbled about me, and heavier came
each task. Why doesn't God help me? I wondered.
He answered, You didn't ask. I tried to come
into God's presence. I used all my keys at the
lock. God gently and lovingly chided, My child,
you didn't knock. I wanted to see joy and beauty.
But the day toiled on gray and bleak. I wondered
why God didn't show me. He said, you didn't seek.
I woke up early this morning and paused before
entering the day. I had so much to accomplish
that I had to take time to pray. Is that the
way you begin your day? Coming to the Lord for
fresh manna. Saying, bread of heaven, feed me
today. Not for yesterday, not for tomorrow, for
today. I need fresh manna. And Lord, I bow my
knees and I open the book. Speak to me. Feed
my soul. Let's bow together. Did you begin this
morning on your knees, taking time to pray to
seek the Lord? Has the manner of your life grown
foul because you've been careless in your Christian
experience? Or has your Christian life become
distasteful to you You're dissatisfied because
you're looking back at the world and you think
you think That the fun in the world is better
than the joy of knowing the Savior Dear friend,
these are heinous sins in the sight of God these
things be so and None of us is beyond them To
whatever extent We need to apply this to our
lives and come to the Lord in confession and
repentance. May we do that now. O Bread of Heaven,
Bread of Heaven, feed us. Feed us till we want
no more and we want nothing else beside you,
the true. Before I close the service, I wonder
if there's someone here who needs to trust the
Savior. Spiritually, you're hungry, indeed you're
starving. Jesus is God's gracious provision for
you, for your sins. He died for you and rose
again from the dead. If you will today partake
of Him, that is, if you will believe on Him in
a saving way, if you will receive Him and take
Him as your own, He will become all that you
need for your pilgrimage in this life and will
take you safely to heaven. Will you trust Him
today? Father, thank you for providing for us
what we could not provide for ourselves. Thank
you for applying this word to our lives and may
we go from here determined That we shall seek
you daily and early That we might have fresh
manna for each day with all of its cares and
busyness Keep our priorities right and our affections
heavenly In Jesus name we pray Amen