You Are A Golden Pot of Manna

If you are dead in your trespasses (Ephesians 2:4-8), there is nothing that you can offer.

The perfect type for this reality we find in the Old Testament, in the Ark of the Covenant:

"31And the house of Israel called the name thereof Manna: and it was like coriander seed, white; and the taste of it was like wafers made with honey. 32And Moses said, This is the thing which the LORD commandeth, Fill an omer of it to be kept for your generations; that they may see the bread wherewith I have fed you in the wilderness, when I brought you forth from the land of Egypt. 33And Moses said unto Aaron, Take a pot, and put an omer full of manna therein, and lay it up before the LORD, to be kept for your generations. " (Exodus 16: 31-33)

Then you can read in Hebrews:

"Which had the golden censer, and the ark of the covenant overlaid round about with gold, wherein was the golden pot that had manna, and Aaron's rod that budded, and the tables of the covenant;" (Hebrews 9: 4)

How interesting, that in the New Testament, the writer affirms that the pot was golden.

The Golden pots of manna represent not just man's rebellion against God's provision, but also who we are before God in Christ, as Christ is our ark, and we are protected in Him. Apart from Him, we can do nothing, we have nothing, we are nothing. Yet He fills us with the Bread of Life (John 6: 63), Jesus, and because we are in Christ, we are established in righteousness, represented by the golden overlay on the outside of the pots.

When we realize that we have nothing of ourselves, and that His life fills us up, then we find ourselves receiving all things freely with Him.

We are dead to all the elements, the rudiments of this world, because once the law has done its job (Ephesians 3: 23-25), proving to us that we are dead in our trespasses, then we receive Christ our life. and that more abundantly (John 10: 10).

Be His Golden pot, and let Him fill you full today!