About a month and a half after being miraculously brought out of Egypt by God His people run out of food and rather than trusting Him for more miracles they resort to complaining against Moses and Aaron, God’s ordained leaders, which God considers to be against Him! Think twice before you find fault with those God has set in leadership! Nevertheless in His love and mercy God still cares for them and sends them delicious food from heaven with explicit instructions about gathering it; still some in their carnal nature decide to do it their way instead of God’s with disastrous consequences. If you do things different than God has laid them out, even if it looks good in your eyes or the eyes of others, don’t be surprised when you end up in disaster! Finally, God gave specific instructions about gathering it for the Sabbath, but some did not heed and ended up without on that day! As we follow this incident into the New Testament we see that Jesus is the substance of this foreshadowing; He is “the true bread from heaven…the bread of life…the living bread…” He says, “if any man eats of this bread he will live forever” John 6:32,35,51. Today is our day of preparation, the day to partake and gather of this bread laying it up for the Sabbath of heaven 2 Corinthians 6:2 says, “now is the accepted time; behold, now is the day of salvation” and Hebrews 4:7 says, “today if you will hear His voice, Do not harden your heart.” Sadly many will not listen to His voice and put off taking His “bread” and one day find it is too late.
Miracle Bread
Bt Rose Hill
Let me tell you about some miracle bread,
Yes miracle bread is what I said.
The children of Israel needed something to eat,
God in His mercy gave them a treat.
He made some bread fall out of the sky,
They ate all they wanted and didn’t have to die.
Jesus is the bread that to us He is giving,
He gives nourishment and strength for spiritual living.
Scripture quotations are form the New King James Version copyright 1982 by Thomas Nelson Co .used by permission.