God has never, in the history of the world, called a people out from the world in order to starve them. It sometimes looked that way, but this was because it was God’s intention to not only fed their bodies, but also to feed their faith.
This is why the manna fell from the sky. If He had wanted, God could have delivered more ordinary food for the Israelites, and arranged to do it in a more ordinary way. Everyone knows that bread is supposed to come up from the dirt, and not down out of the sky. Up out of the dirt is natural law, and down from the sky seems suspiciously like a miracle. But of course, bread from heaven is no more unusual that bread from dirt. God just alternated the pattern in order to feed the Israelites in another way.
If you were to spend all your time looking for the ordinary delivery trucks, then it did appear as though God had taken them out in the wilderness in order to starve them. As I said, it looked that way.
But God did not do this in order to feed them less, to put them on starvation rations. God was not being stingy with the food. Rather, God wanted to give them fat souls. There is a way of demanding the ordinary means of eating that obtains our request, but leanness of soul with it.
For those who rejoiced in the bread from the sky, they had bread on the table, but they also had bread in their hearts. This is why you Christians are heirs of the Israelites. You are being invited to rejoice the same way. God gives you food. He does not deliver you from sin in order to take you out into a wilderness and starve you. He saves you from Egypt in order that you might see His mighty works in the desert.
Water from the Rock that was Christ. Bread from heaven, and Christ again. For those who have faith, Christ is over all, in all, and through all. He is here with us this morning, and He is here in fulfillment of His promise. So let us partake together with Him.