Exodus 16:11-15 The Lord said to Moses, "I have heard the grumbling of the Israelites. Tell them, 'At twilight you will eat meat, and in the morning you will be filled with bread. Then you will know that I am the Lord your God.'" (Even when we express our needs inappropriately, even when we gripe in complaining and grumbling ways, the Lord hears us and chooses to supply our needs because of His great love for us. Like a loving father who sees the needs of his immature and defiant child, so the Lord sees the needs of His immature and disobedient people. Yearning for meat and bread in the desert where they are unable to supply these needs for themselves, the people have complained they have neither. Now the Lord Who Himself has brought them to this place of need chooses to supply their need, a situation of which He has been well aware would emerge long before the people even recognized the need. And His provision will be so extraordinary that the people will be forced to acknowledge the Lord as their source of supply and their God.) That evening quail came and covered the camp, and in the morning there was a layer of dew around the camp. (In the exact timing to meet the needs of His people, the annual flight of birds migrating from the Red Sea and the Mediterranean brings them to their landing right at the place of Israel's encampment. The Lord causes natural events to be used for His purposes when He comes to the aid of His people. The Lord also provides manna from heaven, a supernatural event, something never seen before. In His miraculous outreach to us today, He still causes both earth's resources and heaven's wonders to enter and impact the situations of need in our lives.) When the dew was gone, thin flakes like frost on the ground appeared on the desert floor. When the Israelites saw it, they said to each other, "What is it?" For they did not know what it was. Moses said to them, "It is the bread the Lord has given you to eat." ( (To show His people His great power and to draw them to Himself, the Lord does a completely new thing, so new, in fact, that the people didn't know what it was they saw before them. The name for this new bread comes from their questioning among themselves, asking each other in wonder what it was, and that is the meaning of manna, what is it. For us manna is a picture of Christ, coming from heaven representing His heavenly source, small and thin representing His humble and low estate, appearing daily representing His continuous presence. The Lord still provides manna from heaven for us today, both literally and figuratively. Christ is our manna today from Whom we gain provision for all our physical and spiritual needs.)
