“Behold, upon the face of the wilderness there lay a small round thing…and…they said one to another, It is manna…and Moses said…This is the bread which the Lord hath given you to eat” (Exodus 16:14-15). “And when they did mete it [measure it] with an omer, he that gathered much had nothing over, and he that gathered little had no lack” (Exodus 16:18). Here is something else that the Lord provided for His people. Can you imagine how much food would be needed to feed the children of Israel every day in the wilderness? We know that there were more than 600,000 able-bodied men, and probably the same number of women, plus children, so that there were likely more than two million people to be fed. That is as many people as live in a large city! The Lord provided manna for them, and they had to gather it in the morning, before the sun was hot. But it seems that they helped one another, for some gathered more, others less. Yet when they measure it, there was enough for all. The manna speaks of Christ, and it takes effort to learn more of Him. How good it is if we are like the Israelites, who gathered it early in the morning. In John 6 the Lord Jesus compares Himself to the manna, and it is through His Word that we learn more of Him. It is also nice when we can share what we have gathered, as the Israelites shared the manna.
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