Reading this passage, you wonder if your thoughts can contain what God has said. To the average person -- even the average Christian -- it would seem the height of foolishness to buy food without money. Most would think you meant begging or stealing! But is God talking about the bread of heaven? Is it spiritual food? Passages like this make me afraid to take God too literally! I don't even care if creation took place in seven 24-hour days, or a few thousand or even millions of years! For my soul to find riches I will have to ask God to give us his Spirit, or we will miss the whole point.
