T HE K I N G ’S B U S I N E S S edly, bu t we have no more of Him than faith appropriates.— Scofield Bible. If a man tru ste d God for tomorrow , he would be content to stop collecting when he had filled his omer. Tempt ing as the easily gathered abundance would be, greed and unbelief would m asquerade then, as now, under the guise of p rud en t foresight.— Maclaren. v. 19. L et no m an leave of it. We must gath er afresh of Christ every day and let the dew of the Holy Spirit m in ister Christ to our h earts. Many live on past experiences and become puffed up, and stagnation follows.— Anno. Bible. v. 20. Some of them le ft of it. We cannot hoard up tru th un til tomorrow. We must use w hat we get. Feed on Christ as a m atter of actual need.— Sel. We are no t nourished by the memory of food, n eith er can sp iritu ality be sus tained on p ast appropriations of Christ. — Scofield. God’s gift is spoiled by sel fish and m iserly hoardings—Dummelow. I suppose some of you girls are already looking forw ard to th e time when you will be th rough w ith school and lessons will be a th ing of th e past. T h at tim e will MY CLASS never come be- OF GIRLS cause all our life Miss C lara Silliman is ju st one long school term and we are all constantly learning lessons as we journey through. The children of Israel learned many many lessons du ring th e ir fo rty years of schooling in th e w ilderness and the one we study today is a very im po rtan t one: Their experiences and God’s dealing w ith them ta u g h t them th e ir dependence upon Him for all th e ir needs and His provision for them . We too, must learn th e lesson of God’s provision for our need, and by application, our need of Christ, the Bread of Life.
140 son is constant dependence upon God for daily nourishm ent.— Jam ison. v. 7. In th e morning. Jesus should be sought before o ther things possess th e h eart.— J. A. D. I need to be fed as the day begins so I can set out to my daily work w ith a taste of God in my mouth and His m ighty grace in my h eart.— Jow ett, v. 12. Ye shall be filled w ith bread. Was manna needful for th e body? Even more u rgently is Christ needed for th e soul. Was manna given freely for all the camp of Israel? Even so is Christ given for all. Every one th a t believeth on Him may have life.—-F. B. M. v. 14. When th e dew was gone up. The dew, afte r which the manna is seen, speaks of the Holy Spirit who m inisters Christ.— Gaebelein. There lay a small round thing. W hat manna was is u tterly unknown, bu t from the circumstances in the text, it is evident th a t it was not a n atu ra l production bu t was m iracu lously sent by Jehovah.— Treas. Scrip. Knowl. v. 15. I t is m anna. “The old corn of th e land of C anaan” has its antitype in Christ ascended on high and seated in th e glory. As such He is th e proper food of those who by faith know them selves as raised up togeth er and seated togeth er w ith Him in the heavenlies, but the manna—th a t is, Christ—as come down from heaven, is for th e peo ple of God in th e ir w ilderness life and experience. As we journey here, we need a Christ who has also journeyed down here.— McIntosh. Type of Christ as bread of life come down from hea ven to die for th e life of th e world. Jno. 6:35, 48, 51. To m ed itate upon Christ as He w ent about among men doing, no t H is own will, bu t the F a th e r’s will, is to feed on th e manna. — Scofield. It is in teresting to notice th a t manna is reserved as th e fu tu re food of th e righteous. Rev. 2:17.— Masterman. v. 16. Every m an according to his eating. Christ gives H imself unreserv-
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