Daily Bread

Deuteronomy 7-9; Mark 15 

“Remember how the Lord your God led you all the way in the desert these forty years, to humble you and to test you in order to know what was in your heart, whether or not you would keep his commands. He humbled you, causing you to hunger and then feeding you with manna…to teach you that man does not live on bread alone but on every word that comes from the mouth of the Lord.”

Deuteronomy 8:2, 3

Our hunger for relationship with God comes from him and can only be satisfied by the Lord. Israel’s desert experience taught them dependence on the Lord in a very practical way, every day. Manna represented the life that God alone could give them. Jesus quoted this text in resisting Satan’s temptation in the wilderness: ”man does not live on bread alone” followed by: “but on every word that comes from the mouth of the Lord.” Jesus listened to his Father every day and obeyed the assignments, not just the moral laws that his Father gave to him. 

Are listening to the Word and obeying, our daily bread?

“Lord Jesus, I am listening to and obeying you this day, for your glory.”