God has always spoken to His people using pictures and parables that we should be able to understand. Prophetic literature is filled with word pictures, similes and illustrations that teach us to know our God… But these are always a double edged sword. For we will all too often refuse to understand, refuse to see the truth and run to that which is false as if that which is not could supply the need of the moment or beyond. In Isaiah 55.2 God rebukes Israel for this tendency…"Why do you spend money for what is not bread, And your wages for what does not satisfy? Listen carefully to Me, and eat what is good, And let your soul delight itself in abundance." (Isaiah 55:2, NKJV) Notice the implied offer of bread contained in the rebuke, we chase after and spend ourselves to exhaustion to buy that which is not real, and all the while God offers us freely to have what we need and cannot otherwise obtain. The bread that we need cannot be bought. But it can be obtained in the covenant relationship with our God that is only available in Jesus Christ. As we return today to consider the shewbread once more, I want to focus our attention on the bread that it represents clearest. The bread of life, Jesus Christ.