WORD OF THE DAY

Word of the Day

“Yea, they spake against God; they said, Can God furnish a table in the wilderness? Behold, he smote the rock, that the waters gushed out, and the streams overflowed; can he give bread also? can he provide flesh for his people?”
‭‭Psalms‬ ‭78:19-20.

The questions in this text are very serious ones that reveal wether or not a person has confidence in the power of God. Here the Israelites were once again complaining because they were in need of a a miracle. Google search of the word miracle comes back with this, a surprising and welcome event that is not explicable by natural or scientific laws and is therefore considered to be the work of a divine agency. God did perform a miracle for them he made manna which is bread that came down from heaven. This answered the question as to wether can God furnish a table in the wilderness. This issue was finally put to rest by the fact that Jesus in the Gospels also fed people in the wilderness. Matthew 14:15-21, Mark 6:35-44, Luke 9:12-17, and John 6:3-14 all record the same event, the miracle of Jesus feeding 5,000 men not including women and children with only five loaves of bread and two fish. Now in all four accounts the disciples came to Jesus and asked him to send the people away because the people needed food. Three of the four accounts explicitly state that Jesus had been teaching the people in a desert place. Now the words wilderness and desert are synonymous, they both mean the same thing. They both describe a land that desolate and lifeless. It was in desolate lifeless land that Jesus put on display Colossians 2:9 that he was fully God. “When Jesus then lifted up his eyes, and saw a great company come unto him, he saith unto Philip, Whence shall we buy bread, that these may eat? And this he said to prove him: for he himself knew what he would do.” John‬ ‭6:5-6‬. Jesus intentionally did this miracle to prove who he was, God in the flesh. Jesus asked a question that he knew the answer to. Jesus blessed the food and then broke it and everyone was fed, and after all the people had eaten there were still left overs. That is the literal interpretation of the text now let us turn to the redemptive meaning of this texts. “Then Jesus said unto them, Verily, verily, I say unto you, Moses gave you not that bread from heaven; but my Father giveth you the true bread from heaven. For the bread of God is he which cometh down from heaven, and giveth life unto the world. Then said they unto him, Lord, evermore give us this bread. And Jesus said unto them, I am the bread of life: he that cometh to me shall never hunger; and he that believeth on me shall never thirst.” John‬ ‭6:32-35‬. What does this mean, how can a man be bread, and how can the insatiable desires of man be filled? When a persons is under sound preaching that proclaims Christ and him crucified they are feeding on Christ. They are feeding on the true bread. The desires that we have stem from our fallen sin nature that can never be satisfied apart from Christ. The Bible says that Christ is the fullness who filleth all things Ephesians 1:23. Therefore the more we feed on Christ the more we are filled by the one who never runs out. Run to Christ sinners, admit your guilt ask for forgiveness and begin to feed on Christ. Acts 16:31.