Taste and See

Today's readings in church from I Kings 19:4-8:

But he (Elijah) himself went a day's journey into the wilderness, and came and sat down under a broom tree; and he asked that he might die, saying, "It is enough; now, O LORD, take away my life; for I am no better than my fathers."
And he lay down and slept under a broom tree; and behold, an angel touched him, and said to him, "Arise and eat."
And he looked, and behold, there was at his head a cake baked on hot stones and a jar of water. And he ate and drank, and lay down again.
And the angel of the LORD came again a second time, and touched him, and said, "Arise and eat, else the journey will be too great for you."
And he arose, and ate and drank, and went in the strength of that food forty days and forty nights to Horeb the mount of God.

And from John 6:58-51:I

I am the bread of life.
Your fathers ate the manna in the
wilderness, and they died.
This is the bread which comes down from heaven, that a man may eat of it and not die. I am the living bread which came down from heaven; if any one eats of this bread, he will live for ever; and the bread which I shall give for the life of the world is my flesh."

So Elijah couldn't even go one day, but when given bread from heaven he could go forty days and forty nights. We cannot journey on our own strength. I think God is hammering me over the head with this message. We have to "arise and eat" lest the journey be to great for us. Taste and see that the Lord is good!