Lately, I've been hungrier than I've been in my life. For a month now, I have strictly avoided any wheat or associates. I live as a Celiac without the diagnosis, because in order to receive a diagnosis, you need to have wheat in your system for two months. (I can barely have it in my mouth without some type of reaction.)
This makes eating quite difficult. I fear ingesting the "poisons"almost every time I eat. Companies change their ingredients all the time, so even products that I know and love, need to be assessed before consumption. It's exhausting.
We need food. It's essential. Before pesticides were discovered and used, bread was necessary for life. Think about how during the pandemic everybody had a store of flour and the world had a shortage. We know what we need.
Tonight on the Christian radio, a message came on. It shared a study about the effects that hunger has on our shopping habits. It proved that more often than not when we're hungry, we buy more junk food. (I don't even need a study to tell me that. I want quick foods I can put in my mouth pronto.)
The point was made that people who love Jesus are similar. When we don't fill ourselves on the Word of God daily, we try to fill our souls with other things that do nothing for us.
In Deuteronomy 8:3 (ESV), Moses tells the Israelites that God didn't only provide for their needs with bread, although that was needed. He kept them alive with every word from His mouth. Even Jesus agreed with this when He used that same passage to rebuke the devil for tempting Him.
Later, we hear Him call Himself the Bread of Life. (John 6:1-59 ESV) (( Read that passage. It's full of good stuff.)) After feeding 5,000 with five loaves of bread and two fish and a myriad of other miracles, He talks with people who claim that Moses gave their fathers bread from heaven, but Jesus corrects them. It's not Moses, but the Father Who gave bread from heaven. Even at that moment He gave bread from heaven-Jesus. He is the Bread of Life. The fathers ate the manna in the wilderness and died, but Jesus claims that if you eat from His flesh, you will never die.
I don't know if this encourages you. I know I still need to be reminded of this truth. Let's just say that I'm hungry and I want to be filled with true Bread, especially since that Bread is Life.
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