Exodus 16: 13-21: “And it came to pass, that at even the quails came up, and covered the camp: and in the morning the dew lay round about the host. And when the dew that lay was gone up, behold, upon the face of the wilderness there lay a small round thing, as small as the hoar frost on the ground. And when the children of Israel saw it, they said one to another, It is manna: for they wist not what it was. And Moses said unto them, This is the bread which the LORD hath given you to eat. This is the thing which the LORD hath commanded, Gather of it every man according to his eating, an omer for every man, according to the number of your persons; take ye every man for them which are in his tents. And the children of Israel did so, and gathered, some more, some less. 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. And Moses said, Let no man leave of it till the morning. Notwithstanding they hearkened not unto Moses; but some of them left of it until the morning, and it bred worms, and stank: and Moses was wroth with them. And they gathered it every morning, every man according to his eating: and when the sun waxed hot, it melted.”
The Lord promised that they would have meat and bread and they did. How on earth can you give bread meat to two million people in the middle of the desert? There is no earthly way of doing this but the Lord is able to provide, even this much for this many people. Manna simply means, “What is this?” When the people woke up in the morning there was food on the ground, it looked like frost but it was edible. However, some of the people didn’t trust the Lord and kept some extra manna for the next day but it had already rotted and was useless. The people had to get up in the morning to take the bread otherwise it melted in the heat of the sun and they went hungry. This was not just about bread, it was about teaching them to trust the Lord for their daily need.
(The view expressed in this blog are my own and should not be taken as inspired in any way.)
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