Manna Today or Manna Lost - UBM [David Eells]

Don't miss any opportunity to eat your bread of life from heaven every day. Partaking of the Word of God and fellowship with those who share it is of utmost importance.

{Exo.16:4} Then said Jehovah unto Moses, Behold, I will rain bread from heaven for you; and the people shall go out and gather a day's portion every day, that I may prove them, whether they will walk in my law, or not.

The Israelites didn't obey God in this and they murmured and fell in the wilderness. When because of worldly pursuit we pass up the chance to eat our manna today with the excuse that we will do it tomorrow, we miss the only chance we had to eat that manna and prepare our soul for the wilderness.

{19} And Moses said unto them, Let no man leave of it till the morning. {20} Notwithstanding they hearkened not unto Moses; but some of them left of it until the morning, and it bred worms, and became foul: and Moses was wroth with them.

All excuses aside; people do what is important to them. If the kingdom is not first in a persons life, God will find someone else who values what He has to offer.

{Mat.22:4} Again he sent forth other servants, saying, Tell them that are bidden, Behold, I have made ready my dinner; my oxen and my fatlings are killed, and all things are ready: come to the marriage feast. {5} But they made light of it, and went their ways, one to his own farm, another to his merchandise. {8} Then saith he to his servants, The wedding is ready, but they that were bidden were not worthy. {9} Go ye therefore unto the partings of the highways, and as many as ye shall find, bid to the marriage feast.

{Luk.14:15} And when one of them that sat at meat with him heard these things, he said unto him, Blessed is he that shall eat bread in the kingdom of God. {16} But he said unto him, A certain man made a great supper; and he bade many: {17} and he sent forth his servant at supper time to say to them that were bidden, Come; for [all] things are now ready. {18} And they all with one [consent] began to make excuse. The first said unto him, I have bought a field, and I must needs go out and see it; I pray thee have me excused. {19} And another said, I have bought five yoke of oxen, and I go to prove them; I pray thee have me excused. {20} And another said, I have married a wife, and therefore I cannot come. {21} And the servant came, and told his lord these things. Then the master of the house being angry said to his servant, Go out quickly into the streets and lanes of the city, and bring in hither the poor and maimed and blind and lame. {22} And the servant said, Lord, what thou didst command is done, and yet there is room. {23} And the lord said unto the servant, Go out into the highways and hedges, and constrain [them] to come in, that my house may be filled. {24} For I say unto you, that none of those men that were bidden shall taste of my supper. {25} Now there went with him great multitudes: and he turned, and said unto them, {26} If any man cometh unto me, and hateth not his own father, and mother, and wife, and children, and brethren, and sisters, yea, and his own life also, he cannot be my disciple. {27} Whosoever doth not bear his own cross, and come after me, cannot be my disciple.

I pray for you that God will be first in your life. You have a chance to prepare for the wilderness. Without taking advantage of this you will fall and someone will take your place. "Let no man take thy crown".

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