In our Christian life, there are at least three stages of eating, corresponding to the picture seek with the people of Israel’s eating: eating Christ as our Passover, eating Christ as our heavenly food to be reconstituted with Him, and eating Him as the rich produce of the good land to become His overcomers. These […]
The Christ we Eat as Manna makes us His Overcomers and becomes an Eternal Memorial
September 18, 2019 by Leave a Comment
When we eat the open manna (the manna that is available for us openly every day), we gain the hidden manna (the manna that we have eaten, digested, and assimilated) and are being produced as the overcomers of today; the Christ we enjoy and assimilate becomes an eternal memorial before God. The matter of manna […]
Christ as the Heavenly Manna is Small, Balanced, Refreshing, Solid, Bright, and Tasty!
September 18, 2019 by Leave a Comment
The only food God gives us today in our Christian journey is Christ as the heavenly manna; this food is balanced, good, small enough to eat, perfect, without any mixture, cooling and refreshing us, full of life, solid, bright and transparent, tasty, and nourishing. We may think that we may need something else besides manna, […]
We Eat the Lord Jesus by Eating His Words of Spirit and Life to Live Because of Him
September 16, 2019 by Leave a Comment
Christ is the reality of the heavenly manna sent by God to be the daily life supply of His chosen people, and we can eat the Lord Jesus and live because of Him by eating His words and digesting Him into our inner being. This week in our deeper study of the book of Numbers […]
We need to See and Experience the Characteristics of Christ as our Daily Manna
March 27, 2015 by Leave a Comment
When we read the book of Exodus we may have a high appreciation for God delivering His people out of Egypt, the changing of bitter water into sweet, the law was given at Mount Sinai, etc but we may not appreciate the manna too much. But throughout their journey in the wilderness toward the good […]
Eating Nothing but Christ to be Reconstituted with Him and Build up the Church
March 26, 2015 by 2 Comments
God cares more for what we are than for what we can do for Him; thus, God cares very much for what we eat because what we eat determines what we live by and what we become. When God created Adam, He didn’t give him a to-do list but put him in front of the […]
Having a Change of Diet to Eating Christ as the Real Manna in our Christian Life
March 25, 2015 by 2 Comments
The deep truth in Exodus 16 and in the whole book of Exodus is that God wanted to change the diet of His people from the Egyptian food to the heavenly food, the heavenly manna. Even though the people of Israel were positionally no longer in Egypt but in the wilderness, in their constitution they […]
