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Exodus chapter 16 verse 15

when the people of Israel saw it they said to one another, what is it?

They did not know what it was.

And Moses said to them, it is the bread that the Lord has given you to eat.

This verse summarizes what happened when God provided food for his

people when they were hungry in the wilderness,

how he sent bread from heaven in a way that shocked and surprised them. And in this, we see so many things but one of the things we see

is the daily provision of God for his people,

that God sees himself

as the sustainer of his people

on a daily basis in a way that really supersedes

even natural processes and natural things in this world, meaning, well what God later said about this

circumstance, he said part of what he was doing was teaching his people. They

don't live on bread alone, but on every word that comes from his mouth.

Meaning, there's a sustenance that comes from God that is greater than even the bread we eat in this world and even that is a gift from God.

That's the message here in this verse.

This is the bread that the Lord has given you to eat.

What we see all throughout the Bible that God is our sustainer, every good gift we

have comes from him. So this is why it makes total sense.

Before we eat a meal to bow our heads, not just in a sense of rote religious routine,

but in a heart that is grateful, that realizes,

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