WHAT IS THIS?

God said in the desert that He would feed us with manna. Manna means, “what is this.” God fed the children of Israel with food their fathers did not know. There were no recipes or cookbooks. They had by experience, learned how to prepare it and cook it and how to make use of it. It had to awaken a new hunger in the children of Israel to embrace what God did. When God brings us into a place of humility, where we ask our selves “ what is this”. We can never receive the freshness of life unless we know how to humble ourselves. He gives the manna. “So He humbled you, allowed you to hunger, and fed you with manna which you did not know nor did your fathers know, that He might make you know that man shall not live by bread alone; but man lives by every word that proceeds from the mouth of the Lord.” (Deuteronomy 8:3)

Life means to sustain life, be quickened, restore to life and health, and continue in life, to be quickened from sickness, discouragement, faintness, and death. We cannot be restored and quickened from our discouragement and sickness and death with bread. Bread speaks of over coming, waging war. It is a food to fight the battle of life. When we break bread as we feed our needs and we fight the battle of life, it does not mean that we come into the flow of life. In 1 John 2:12-14 it talks about how the little children know God because they know their sins are forgiven. The young men know God, because they fight the battle of life and are overcomers, but the fathers know God from the beginning. Fathers have understood that their sustaining power does not come in the battle to fill their needs. The sustaining power comes out of the word of God that becomes a flow, a source, of an opening of a well, of being broken to pieces. When God brings and opens the well, as Jacob opened the well for Rachel in the heat of the day, so The Church today has to open the well, as we wage the battle to fill our senses and our needs in our lives.

In His Love,
      Sigi

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