Feed on God’s Word — Part 3
The Manna in the Old Testament is a picture of the Man Jesus Christ. In John chapter 6 the Lord taught His disciples to feed on Himself, the Heavenly Manna. He said, “I am that bread of life. Your fathers did eat manna in the wilderness, and are dead…This is that bread which came down from heaven: not as your fathers did eat manna, and are dead: he that eateth of this bread shall live forever” (John 6:48-49,58).
If we want to be healthy, happy, fruitful Christians, with proper spiritual growth, we need to feed on Christ, and the way we feed on Christ is through the Word of God.
When we eat something we take it into our system and it becomes part of us. This is true of the Scriptures. When we read it, meditate on it, and digest the truth of it, we receive eternal benefit. Then we will be able to “Grow in grace, and in the knowledge of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ” (2 Peter 3:18). The Manna sustained the Israelites for the whole forty years that they were in the wilderness, and the Word of God is sufficient to feed us with Christ for our whole life as long as we are here in this wilderness world.
