Is Manna our daily bread?

 Exodus 16:15
15 And when the children of Israel saw it, they said one to another, It is manna: for they wist not what it was. And Moses said unto them, This is the bread which the Lord hath given you to eat.
When the children of Israel began to journey through the wilderness to their promised land of Canaan, they found something as their food, which they had not known before. They did not know what it was, so they called it MANNA.

Manna was quite different from other food the children of Israel had eaten before. They could not store manna for a future day. Every morning they had to wait upon the Lord for fresh manna from heaven for that particular day.

However, this manna was not promised before they started their journey through the wilderness. But God had promised the children of Israel a prosperous land flowing with milk and honey, which they had known as 'Canaan'.

Canaan was the destination of the journey of the children of Israel. God had told them what their destination was. But God had never told them what the journey they were supposed to make to reach this destination.

The same method God is using even today for our lives. Every one of us has a promised land which flows with milk and honey. This promised land shows our spiritual blessings and material blessings.

Every one of us has to journey through the wilderness in order to arrive at this promised land. The journey shows the path to our spiritual maturity. This wilderness shows a period of time without prosperity.

God never tells us what our journey is like, but He always assures us of our destination.

We are given manna as our daily bread during this journey through the wilderness. This manna shows lack of different spiritual gifts and physically what we just manage to receive daily to make a hand to mouth life. But even for this manna, we have to wait upon the Lord in faith daily. But remember manna is not the ultimate blessing, but it is our bread until we reach the promised land wherein we are assured of everything in abundance.

Joshua 5:12 12 And the manna ceased on the morrow after they had eaten of the old corn of the land; neither had the children of Israel manna any more; but they did eat of the fruit of the land of Canaan that year.

However, manna becomes a permanent food for those Christians who have stopped their journey in the middle of the wilderness. Today, many have laid foundations and made their homes in the wilderness instead of making their journey until they reach the promised land. That is why they have a life of murmuring as manna is not something that can be eaten every day because of its nature.

The manna God had planned to give to the children of Israel only for about two years, was eaten by them for forty years as they forgot the milk and honey in the promised land, but murmured by looking back at Egypt where they had eaten flesh.

Exodus 16:3535 And the children of Israel did eat manna forty years, until they came to a land inhabited...

So, let's journey through the wilderness looking at the cloud of the Lord, which is the guidance of the Holy Spirit in the right path to our promised land. Let's eat manna for the moment, without murmuring, but praising God for milk and honey God has promised us at our destination.