Morning Manna by Rufus Parker: Morning Manna by Rufus Parker

Tuesday, November 19, 2024

Morning Manna by Rufus Parker - 2024 November 19

The Greatest Gift

“And now abideth faith, hope, charity, these three; but the greatest of these is charity.” (1 Corinthians 13:13)

Today’s Morsel: Have you ever considered why God chose the word love to display who He is? What is it about love that it can draw us closer, break our hearts, cause division, and even cause us to do wrong things? Love only causes us to do wrong things when we don’t understand love. As Christians, we know that God is love based on the word of God. Love is who and what God is. You can’t explain love. Love must be displayed and carried out through action and conduct. Love is more than just affection for someone and something. To me, love is both a verb and an adjective. Not only does it reveal one’s actions or state of being, but it also modifies or describes how an individual’s actions and behavior ought to be. God calls for us to put our love into action and to live it out before Him and others. Maybe this is where we get the saying, actions speak louder than words. And when we do that correctly, it will reveal God in our lives, and it will also describe who we are in Him before others. Paul lets us know that love is the bond of perfectness (Colossian 3:14), and that we must be knitted together in love (Colossians 2:2). When we love God with all our heart, mind, soul, and strength, it joins us into completion in Him, and causes us to manifest to others who He is in our lives.

Sing: The greatest gift in all my life is loving You. The greatest gift in all my life is loving You. I want to love You more, I want to love You more. The greatest gift in all my life is loving You.

Thought For Today: “Beloved, let us love one another: for love is of God; and every one that loveth is born of God, and knoweth God.” (1 John 4:7)

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About Morning Manna

And it came to pass, as Aaron spake unto the whole congregation of the children of Israel, that they looked toward the wilderness, and, behold, the glory of the LORD appeared in the cloud. And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying, I have heard the murmurings of the children of Israel: speak unto them, saying, At even ye shall eat flesh, and in the morning ye shall be filled with bread; and ye shall know that I am the LORD your God. And it came to pass, that at even the quails came up, and covered the camp: and in the morning the dew lay round about the host. And when the dew that lay was gone up, behold, upon the face of the wilderness there lay a small round thing, as small as the hoar frost on the ground. And when the children of Israel saw it, they said one to another, It is manna: for they wist not what it was. And Moses said unto them, This is the bread which the LORD hath given you to eat (Exodus 16:10-15).

“Morning Manna” is a short daily devotion which began in 2002, with just a short note of encouragement to a friend who was facing difficulties at the time. Through their response, I was encouraged to begin a daily devotion via email and send it to people who asked to be put on the distribution list. It is now reaching around the globe. Its birth came about during Morning Prayer. The Lord revealed to me that I should forward my friend a word of encouragement, since it is through patience and comfort of the scripture that we find hope. Thus, I forwarded him the words the Lord had given to me for him, and he forwarded it on to someone else who was having difficulties in their life as well, and thus the original list began.

The goal of “Morning Manna” is to provide people with a quick, thought provoking Word from the Lord, as well as provide encouragement from His Word that can help them through the day and during unexpected trails and circumstances in their daily lives.

Several years ago, Jesus moved on my heart to start writing daily devotions; thus began “Morning Manna”. Today, many people are receiving these daily devotions and many of these people are forwarding it on to their family and friends. It is my hope to encourage even more through posting the devotions to this blog-page.

I pray that you, too, will enjoy reading the manna from this site.