Murray Andrew Collection: Murray, Andrew - The Morning Watch (31 days): Day 4

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Murray Andrew Collection: Murray, Andrew - The Morning Watch (31 days): Day 4




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SUBJECT: Day 4

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FORTH DAY

"In the morning ye shall be filled with bread, and ye shall know that I am the Lord your God. And they gathered it every morning, and when the sun waxed hot it melted." (Exo_16:12, Exo_16:21.)

In these verses we have the law of the manna. The Lord would send it in the morning: in the morning it was to be collected. He who neglected to gather his manna in the morning would have to go hungry the whole day long. All this is a foreshadowing of our blessed Saviour. He Himself is the bread from Heaven, the hidden manna. It is in the morning that the believer, even though he be one of the weakest, must draw nigh to God to receive his portion for the day. The reading of the Word is not all that he has to do, the Word is the vessel in which the bread of life is served; he must not only read and meditate upon the Word; he must know and accept the living Christ as his bread of life. Jesus is the" hidden manna." Neither is it enough to pray; prayer is seeking after the manna; he must be sure actually to find the Bread of Life and carry it with him during the day as his food and source of strength.

This is accomplished by faith. Faith sees and finds and takes and eats. By faith I look up in the morning to Jesus as my life. By faith I surrender myself, in the full sense of His love to me, in that He will be my life throughout the day. I tarry until my soul has the full assurance of this. By faith I thank the Lord that I may possess Him for the whole day and I go out into the heat of the day in the rest and gladness of the assurance that Jesus is my Life for this day.