Deuteronomy 1:1-46; Ecclesiastes 1:1-2:11; Luke 6:1-19
The Jews then murmured at him, because he said, I am the bread which came down from heaven. John 6:41
The Lord Jesus is both the bread of life and the bread from heaven: indicating that He is spiritual life’s source and ongoing sustenance. Believers need to prayerfully feed on His word, thus gaining inner vitality and communion with God. As Peter says: “Wherefore laying aside all malice, and all guile, and hypocrisies, and envies, and all evil speakings, As newborn babes, desire the sincere milk of the word, that ye may grow thereby” (1 Pet. 2:1-2). Replace this world’s mental junk food with Christ our spiritual bread. —Keith R. Keyser
Here perfect bliss can ne’er be found,
The honey’s mix’d with gall;
Midst changing scenes and dying friends,
Be Thou my all in all. —Benjamin Beddome