The Meaning of Manna
만나의 의미
신명기(Deu) 8장
2. 네 하나님 여호와께서 이 사십 년 동안에 네게 광야 길을 걷게 하신 것을 기억하라 이는 너를 낮추시며 너를 시험하사 네 마음이 어떠한지 그 명령을 지키는지 지키지 않는지 알려 하심이라
2. Remember how the LORD your God led you all the way in the wilderness these forty years, to humble and test you in order to know what was in your heart, whether or not you would keep his commands.
3. 너를 낮추시며 너를 주리게 하시며 또 너도 알지 못하며 네 조상들도 알지 못하던 만나를 네게 먹이신 것은 사람이 떡으로만 사는 것이 아니요 여호와의 입에서 나오는 모든 말씀으로 사는 줄을 네가 알게 하려 하심이니라
3. He humbled you, causing you to hunger and then feeding you with manna, which neither you nor your ancestors had known, to teach you that man does not live on bread alone but on every word that comes from the mouth of the LORD.
16. 네 조상들도 알지 못하던 만나를 광야에서 네게 먹이셨나니 이는 다 너를 낮추시며 너를 시험하사 마침내 네게 복을 주려 하심이었느니라
16. He gave you manna to eat in the wilderness, something your ancestors had never known, to humble and test you so that in the end it might go well with you.
17. 그러나 네가 마음에 이르기를 내 능력과 내 손의 힘으로 내가 이 재물을 얻었다 말할 것이라
17. You may say to yourself, “My power and the strength of my hands have produced this wealth for me.”
18. 네 하나님 여호와를 기억하라 그가 네게 재물 얻을 능력을 주셨음이라 이같이 하심은 네 조상들에게 맹세하신 언약을 오늘과 같이 이루려 하심이니라
18. But remember the LORD your God, for it is he who gives you the ability to produce wealth, and so confirms his covenant, which he swore to your ancestors, as it is today.
Men have been struggling to eat bread and it is very important, so even the Lord's prayer that Jesus had taught us to pray contains this verse, saying 'Give us today daily bread'.
However, we shouldn't live alone for bread and only satisfied at it, because not only our body, but our soul also needs the Word of God, which makes it alive and satisfied. We humans are differently and specially created by God, compared to any other animals and plants that are made for humans, according to Genesis.
Even though we live well eating enough food as a daily basis, we can't tell that it is my power and strength of my hands that I have got wealth, because it is He, the Lord, who gives the ability to produce wealth, and even a loaf of bread is all from the nature made by God as the verse 17 says.
To teach this lesson through Israelites, in the 430 years' lives of slavery in Egypt and the 40 years' lives in the wilderness, God seems to have made use of them. I mean, they should have lived as slaves of a king without the helping Hand and they wouldn't have been able to live a day without His supporting Manna from the heaven.
Likewise, the only testimony that I can make is that everything that I have and enjoy is all from God. Therefore, i must remember, as He said, that God is my spiritual Savior and my financial supporter in my life. So what i should do is just humbling myself and being careful to follow His commands, so that I may enter and possess the land that the Lord promised on oath.
