THAT BREAD IS NOT ENOUGH Part 1

THE EXCELLING WORD FOR TODAY 

 

That Bread Is Not Enough Part 1 

Matthew 4:4 

But he answered and said, It is written, Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceeds out of the mouth of God. 

My beloved readers, when I took out time to study this particular verse of the scripture, it really gave me a sense of reasoning and answers to so many questions in my heart. Jesus our master was being tempted to turn a stone into a bread, after he had fasted and was terribly hungry. Which he would have done without any stress. But I was so shocked about his answer to the devil; “Man shall not live by bread alone". What a reply! This reply made me to ponder over what bread really meant, by the help of the insight of the Spirit, I came to understand that the word bread in the above scripture is beyond food.  

Bread means: satisfaction, money, comfort, gain or food. Anything you do in life that gives you money, gives you food, help you make gains (properties, positions & material things), gives you physical comfort and satisfies just your flesh and soul (will, emotion and mind), are all classified as bread. If you take a good look at that scripture, you will observe that Jesus did not condemn the bread idea, he did not say man should not live by bread, rather he said man should not live by bread alone, which means that the kind of life man (humans) was programmed to live is beyond bread. As you can see bread is good but you can't live by it alone. It does not have the sustainability to keep you. But come to our today's life, the condition around us keep telling us that without bread we won't survive it. That is the reason many people all over are searching for lucrative businesses to do. Some are in education just to have satisfaction in life, some are involving themselves in fraudulent businesses, some are doing menial jobs and hard labours, why some extra few who think they are good for nothing are on the streets begging. All of these boils down to the fact that we all need bread. 

I have also come to understand that there are legitimate ways of acquiring bread and also illegitimate ways. But the fact also remains that Jesus wants you to have bread but he does not want you to live by it; which means he does not want you to be overshadowed, ruled, dependent or controlled by bread or by the source of your bread. With the given point above, that means making bread the illegitimate way is not an option. Because it means you obeying the devil to make bread for your satisfaction. Which is very bad. Making bread is good but not when the devil is the one bringing the idea, then you need to disobey him and endure the hunger and wait for a legitimate bread. And when the legitimate bread comes don't be carried away by it, don't let it consume the whole of your God given time. Don't pursue it as if your whole life is in it. Always bear in mind that no matter how ‘much’ the bread is; THE BREAD IS NOT ENOUGH. 

My beloved, I believe you have been blessed reading this. See you for the part two of this Excelling Word. 

Shalom! 

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