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Have you ever been served a meal.
It was good, delicious even.
But you weren’t sure what it was.
You had to ask what is this?
You may have regretted asking.
Manna - If you thought that the word meant something simple like bread from heaven.
You would be mistaken.
The word manna means “What is it?”.
This bread from heaven that sustained the children of God for forty years in the wilderness.
No one could tell exactly what it was.
So the name Manna stuck.
What is it?
Manna were these small, round, and white pieces of something similar to bread.
Obviously it was not bread.
But bread is the closest description of what we have.
It was sweet to the taste like a honey wafer.
Every day a person were to go outside when the morning dew had settled and collect the Manna.
I can imagine the first time… Go out and see it on the ground.
Some one picks it up, holds it up.
What is this?
They were to collect only what was needed for that day.
Collect more, what was left would spoil.
Collect too little and the person ran the risk of being hungry.
Being too weak to make the days journey in the wilderness.
For forty years God supplied.
For forty years the people called it Manna.
What is it?
God always supplies, sometimes we are left asking… What was that? or What is it?
God never explained Manna to the people.
He just told them what they were to do.
God supplied, but it was personal responsibility to pick it up.
To collect what was needed.
They had to pick it up and collect what they needed.
God will supply.
He may not tell you how or what.
But He will supply.
God supplied.
They could ignore it.
They could choose not to pick it up.
They would be walking on what God was supplying.
All they had to do was to stoop over and pick it up, and they would have what they needed.
God’s promises are for you!
God’s supply are for you.
But he leaves it to us to stoop over and pick them up.
The act of bending over before someone is to humble yourself.
God leaves it to us to humble ourselves and receive what He has supplied.
God nor his gifts and promises are very far from us.
Sometimes they are right under our feet… because we have ignored them or fail to humble ourself and pick them up.
Three Categories of People
There are three categories of people in life spiritually speaking.
Not interested, no desire, not seeking.
Interested, but only looking for immediate physical satisfaction.
They seek God only for relief from life, struggles, suffering, etc.
Those interested for the eternal.
Jesus said as much in John 6 following the public miracle of feeding the five thousand and the private miracle of walking on the water.
The people found Him on the other side.
You were looking for me for another meal.
There were some people who did not follow.
These followed to get another meal.
Others followed for the sake of following Jesus.
In this one discourse Jesus points them beyond their vision for physical satisfaction.
To the true purpose of His coming.
The spiritual state.
The eternal things.
The everlasting life that He came to offer to the world.
Don’t labor for the things that perish.
But the food that endures to everlasting life, which the Son of Man will give you...
They could not understand… They believed they had to work for the things of God.
What do we do to earn this?
The only work is to believe in the one who sent me.
They ask what work are you going to do for proof that we should believe you?
They point to Moses and the Manna.
Our fathers ate Manna in the wilderness.
They ate the “What is it?”
that was supplied by Moses.
Jesus points out that Moses was not giving you a sign.
God was supplying the Manna, the “What is it?”.
Now He is giving another Manna, “What is it?”
The Bread of Life has come so that we can have eternal life.
Not just a morning routine of picking up “What is it?”
but the eternal supply of “What is it?”.
The people in the wilderness ate the “what is it?”
but died in the wilderness.
But eat some of the bread of life and you will live forever.
Jesus continues to offer Manna.
It is the “what is it?” of the Spirit.
This was difficult for those who heard Jesus to understand.
The Jews argued about it.
Some of the people counted among the disciples left him over it.
The disciples complained about it.
It is the Spirit that gives life.
The flesh profits nothing.
Flesh paid the price on the cross, so that the Spirit could give life.
Jesus is pointing them toward what will be done.
Today: Jesus is the Bread of Life, and He is giving out the Spirit that gives life.
In Acts 2 when the Spirit was given to His followers and they began to speak in tongues as the Spirit gave them the ability.
The onlookers asked what could this mean?
They were asking, what is this?
Peter begins to tell them, this is the promise being fulfilled.
This is the Spirit that gives life.
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