Psalm 121, Exodus 16:2-41 Corinthians 11:23-26 and John 6:25-35

There are certain people in every church who have a special love for the Lord's supper.

I knew a man once who served as an elder in an open church. He and others came to the table and with their prayers asked God's blessing on the communion service and the congregation. "It's the most awesome thing I've ever done," he told me. "I never step up to the table without a sense of my own inadequacy and a certain fear."

Sometimes it is easy to forget that God fed the people in the wilderness, not because they were faithful, but because they needed food. "Would that we had died by the hand of the Lord in Egypt ...," the hungry people said, and, in spite of what they said, God rained bread from heaven.

Whenever I read that passage, I remem…