Manna Remembered

Manna Remembered

Exodus 16: ³¹ And the house of Israel called its name Manna. And it was like white coriander seed, and the taste of it was like wafers made with honey.

 

³² Then Moses said, “This is the thing which the Lord has commanded: ‘Fill an omer with it, to be kept for your generations, that they may see the bread with which I fed you in the wilderness, when I brought you out of the land of Egypt.’ ” ³³ And Moses said to Aaron, “Take a pot and put an omer of manna in it, and lay it up before the Lord, to be kept for your generations.” ³⁴ As the Lord commanded Moses, so Aaron laid it up before the Testimony, to be kept. ³⁵ And the children of Israel ate manna forty years, until they came to an inhabited land; they ate manna until they came to the border of the land of Canaan. ³⁶ Now an omer is one-tenth of an ephah.

 

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GOD provided food from heaven that humans could not understand. The name Manna means “What?” or “What is it?” Moses describes how it tasted. Then Moses obeyed what the LORD told him by laying up a jar full of manna. This sample lasted forty years.

 

My Observations:

• Moses shows us his writing style by mentioning how long they stayed in the desert, but it was done out of sequence.
• GOD preserved the manna in the jar so the children of Israel would remember HIS provision.
• GOD knew how long HE would keep the people out in the desert, but Moses did not know when he had Aaron collect a sample of manna.

 

This passage of scripture shows us that Moses wrote this book well after the events occurred. GOD had to remind Moses of the events and provide the details HE wanted us to remember. This is a great example of how GOD inspired writers of the Bible to record the exact detail that HE wanted to reveal.

 

The manna did not rot for the full forty years that the children of Israel were in the desert. The jar of manna would eventually end up in the ark of the covenant, otherwise known as the Testimony. Moses did not write in a linear chronological fashion, rather he mentions a little of the end of the journey before it happened. Manna was “bread” from heaven. JESUS is the “bread” of life that we need to remember as often as possible.

 

Challenge

• Why does GOD remind Moses about the jar of manna?
• Has GOD taken you through something and you wrote down the event or kept something to remember what HE brought you through?
• How will you intentionally remember what GOD has done for you during the deliverance?