[Songs in the Night - March 29]
They said to one another, It is manna:...And Moses said unto them, This is the bread which the Lord hath given you to eat. Exodus 16:15
THE supply of manna was a beautiful figure of the
supply of grace in Christ: it needed to be gathered
daily; it would not keep over the succeeding days.
The lesson of this would seem to be that those who
accumulate much of God's grace and truth must also
be dispensers of it.
It is not provided with a view
to the creation of a spiritual aristocracy.
How often
we have seen this exemplified: those who study the
Word merely for themselves, and who do not commingle
with the brethren and share their blessings, are
not in the long run as much advantaged as we would
have expected.
Our gathering of the manna is to be
day by day: our feeding on the Heavenly Bread is to be
a continuous privilege, without which we will not have
strength for the journey of life; but with it we should
be strong in the Lord, and may perchance be permitted
to assist others by the dispensing of divine
grace to them. Z'07-186 R4012:5 (Hymn 226)