Exodus 16:4b "The people are to go out each day and gather enough for that day. (While the people were asking for the bread they knew, the Lord intended to provide them bread of which they knew nothing. When we ask of the Lord, He provides from His sovereign viewpoint and resources He knows the bigger need and supplies what we could not imagine. The Lord provides the manna, and He asks us to engage with Him, to be active participants to receive what He has for us. He calls us to rise up and meet with Him daily to collect and receive from Him what we need for the day.) In this way I will test them and see whether they will follow My instructions." (In His instructions for gathering this bread, He wants His people to depend on Him for each day's provision and to trust Him that His supply will be adequate. His "test" for them is for them to gather manna each day and only enough for the day. Though most of us would likely prefer to gather manna for several days or for the whole week, the Lord challenges us to trust Him each day for our daily needs. His instructions for gathering this bread in this brand-new paradigm
and His promise to His people that the bread they gather for that day will be sufficient for each day's needs are a strategic implementation for the Lord's plan of salvation. They are a picture of how we are to relate to Christ. We must meet Him each day and draw from Him, trusting Him for the supply that He provides for our day. When Jesus later told us to pray for our daily bread, this early provision of manna in the Old Testament was a foreshadowing of His later and present provision as we draw from Him, as we "gather" from Him Who is the Bread of Life in our daily lives today.)
