Residents of Olten, Switzerland, were surprised by a shower of chocolate shavings covering the entire town. The ventilation system at a nearby chocolate factory had malfunctioned, sending cocoa into the air and dusting the area with confectionary goodness. The chocolate coating sounds like a dream come true for chocoholics
While chocolate doesn’t adequately provide for one’s nutritional needs, God supplied the Israelites with heavenly showers that did. As they traveled through the desert, they began to grumble about the variety of food they’d left behind in Egypt. In response, God said He would “rain down bread from heaven” to sustain them (Exodus 16:4). When the morning dew dried up each day, a thin flake of food remained. The Israelites were instructed to gather as much as they needed for that day. On Erev Shabbat they collected a double portion for no manna fell on Shabbat. For forty years of their desert wanderings, they were nourished by God’s supernatural provision in manna.
We know little about manna except that it was “white like coriander seed and tasted like wafers made with honey” (v. 31). Though manna may not sound as appealing as a steady diet of chocolate, the sweetness of God’s provision for His people is clear. Consider for a moment, in connection with that which sustains life, that the Torah is also referred to as bread. “A human being does not live on bread alone, but that one may live on anything that God decrees.” (Deuteronomy 8:3) In this light we can appreciate what King David saying in Psalm 34 “Taste and see that the Lord is good.”
Does your diet include
life-sustaining Torah?
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