Let us never overlook the obvious. The Lord feeds His people. He does not call out a people from the world in order to let them starve. His grace is all-sufficient, and He loves to feed us in remarkable ways, and in remarkable places. The wilderness is no barrier for Him—water flows from the Rock, the Rock being Christ, and bread falls from heaven, the bread being Christ also.
How are His people supposed to take in this food? How do we swallow? How do we chew? The answer is that we appropriate this blessing by one means only. Faith—genuine, evangelical faith.
This is not a faith that merely conforms to a certain doctrine on a page. It is a faith that looks to Jesus Christ, the one in whom we meet with God. He is the one who has shown us the Father. He is the one who reveals what God is like. He is the one who sustains us with the example of His life. He is the one who includes us in Him, for He is the new Adam, and we are all His covenant descendents.
Now everything just said can be reduced to certain doctrines on a page. If you stare at those words, as though they were a mural, then the closer you get, the further away the blessing will be. But if these words of life are seen as a window, seen through as a window is seen through, you will come by faith and meet with your God. And He will bless you. Jesus rebuked certain Bible students of His day with these words—”You search the Scriptures because you think that in them you have eternal life—and it is they that bear witness of me.”