There is the initial act whereby we partake of Christ as the bread of life and receive eternal life. There is also the daily partaking of Him through the written Word for our spiritual food. This cannot be stored up just to be taken daily, even as
the Israelites took the manna daily in the wilderness.
A great tragedy occurred along the way. Israel said, "We remember the fish, which we did eat in Egypt freely; the cucumbers, and the melons, and the leeks, and the onions, the garlic: but now our soul is dried away: there is nothing at all, beside this manna before our eyes: (Num. 11:5-6). They forgot the slavery, the hard taskmasters, and the bondage in Egypt. When they began to complain about God's provision, they wanted to satisfy their fleshly appetites. It is dangerous to look at and set our affections on temporal things, for we, too, will complain and lose our taste for the things of God..
When Israel grew tired of the manna, "The people went about, and gathered it, and ground it in mills, or beat it in a mortar, and baked it in pans, and made cakes of it" (Num. 11:8), but still they could not make it satisfying to themselves.
Today, some try to "doctor up" God's Word to make it palatable, but it just will not satisfy the worldly minded. The people cried out for meat, and God sent a wind which brought quail from the sea for them to eat. God said they were to eat it for a month until it came out of their nostrils and was loathsome to them. It did just that, and then God sent a plague upon them. The sad commentary on this whole incident is in Psalm 106:15: "And he gave them their request; but sent leanness into their soul".
"Thy word was found and I did eat them and thy word was unto me the joy and rejoicing of mine heart; for I am called by thy name, O Lord God of hosts" Jer 15:16
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