September 29

Psalms of a Nation Restored - Psalms 78

Yet He gave a command to the skies above

and opened the doors of the heavens;

He rained down manna for the people to eat,

He gave them the grain of heaven.

Men ate the bread of angels....

Psalms 78:23-25

The bread of angels, manna, what if we had it today? I imagine it was and is the perfect food to sustain a 40-year wandering. Would our athletes run faster and farther with it? Better than any anabolic steriod or blood doping scheme. Would manna be a banned substance?

I'd love just a taste. It makes me think of J.R.R. Tolkien's lembas that appears in The Lord of the Rings, the elven made bread that sustains Frodo on his journey to destroy the evil one.

There may be those who are offended when the Bible conjures [pardon the verb] thoughts of fantasy for me and comparisons to The Lord of the Rings. Because the Bible is true and not a fantasy. But compared to the lives we live and what we imagine reality to be, I think there is more truth in fantasy than our philosophy.

The thing to remember about manna, the bread of angels made from the grain of heaven and sent to the people by the hand of God, is the people got tired of it. Imagine that.