He humbled you and let you be hungry, and fed you with manna which you did not know, nor did your fathers know, that He might make you understand that man does not live by bread alone, but man lives by everything that proceeds out of the mouth of the Lord.Most of us know the second half of this verse from Satan's temptation of Jesus. While it is an important clause, I find the beginning to be very useful in putting the verse in context. This shows what God was referring to in that bread. He is showing here that man with just bread is hopeless. Without God's direction, man will eventually run out of food and die.
However, with God's direction, we will be taken to the places we need to go in order to live and prosper. The methods He uses to do this may be unusual or previously unknown, but they will guide us to the places we needs to go. It's even possible that those places will not provide food, and that we might die, but that is God's path for us, and we must be willing to walk it if necessary.
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