Then answered Peter and said unto him, Declare unto us this parable.
And Jesus said, Are you also yet without understanding?
Do not you yet understand, that whatsoever enters in at the mouth goes into the belly, and is cast out into the draught?
But those things which proceed out of the mouth come forth from the heart; and they defile the man. For out of the heart proceed evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, fornications, thefts, false witness, blasphemies: These are the things which defile a man: but to eat with unwashen hands defiles not a man.
And he humbled you, and suffered you to hunger, and fed you with manna, which you knew not, neither did your fathers know; that he might make you know that man do not live by bread only, but by every word that proceeds out of the mouth of the Lord do man live.
Who fed you in the wilderness with manna, which your fathers knew not, that he might humble you, and that he might prove you, to do you good at your latter end;
And Jesus took the loaves; and when he had given thanks, he distributed to the disciples, and the disciples to them that were set down; and likewise of the fishes as much as they would.When they were filled, he said unto his disciples, Gather up the fragments that remain, that nothing be lost. Therefore they gathered them together and filled twelve baskets with the fragments of the five barley loaves, which remained over and above unto them that had eaten.
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 anymore, but they did eat of the fruit of the land of Canaan that year.
This is that bread which came down from heaven: not as your fathers did eat manna, and are dead: he that eats of this bread shall live forever.
And Jesus said unto them, I am the bread of life: he that comes to me shall never hunger; and he that believes on me shall never thirst.
And the house of Israel called the name thereof Manna: and it was like coriander seed, white; and the taste of it was like wafers made with honey.
He that has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit saith unto the churches; To him that overcomes will I give to eat of the hidden manna, and will give him a white stone, and in the stone, a new name is written, which no man knows saving he that receives it.
Matt. 15:15-20;Deut. 8:3&16;John 6:11-13;Josh. 5:12;John 6:58&35;Exo. 16:31;Rev. 2:17
Long ago, I was a teenager walking down the street with a ice cream cone, it was so good, the whole dip fell off the cone, and someone called out to me, "Pick it up, and Kiss it up to God" and laughed. "That is dirt", I said, to myself.... "Seek and you shall find" was the Word in my life, at another time...Why was it back then that everything that you might need later was on the ground? You might need that penny, but you walked right around it, saying to yourself, "I'm not that hard up". But a few days later, you go into a store with not enough for the tax, and you say to yourself, shaking your head, "It's alright". Money on the ground, pencils the children needed was on the ground. Yes, I got all I needed, Thank you Jesus!!! Why? I said to the Lord, Why do they have to be on the ground? He then said to me, "Your food is on the ground, your fruits and vegetables came from the earth". "Manna was on the ground for the children of Israel", He said all this, by one word "Manna". I said, "Oh". That was it, I was humbled.
Did she wash her hands before she picked up the orange to peel it? What a good, sweet and tasty orange with no seeds inside, couldn't share it because they don't trust this earthen vessel to be clean enough; I enjoyed it though...But where did this orange come from? The earth, A tree, that God has made, a fruit that bears no seed. The food that you eat comes right off the ground and out of the ground, holy ground, the earth has gold and all precious jewels also, it is rich with the Word of God (In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God, God made all things to be very good). The Lord Jesus was on the earth but came from God..."Pick Christ up in your life and Thank God for him in your life"...Thank You, God for your Son in my life!!! Amen.
