During that time the devil came and
said to him, "If you are the Son of God, tell these stones to become
loaves of bread." But Jesus told him, "No! The Scriptures say,
'People do not live by bread alone, but by every word that comes from the mouth
of God.' Matthew 4:3-4
Memory Scripture of the Week:
Our Father in heaven, may your name be kept holy.
May your Kingdom come soon.
May your will be done on earth, as it is in heaven.
Give us today the food we need,
and forgive us our sins, as we have forgiven those who sin against us.
And don't let us yield to temptation, but rescue us from the evil one.
Matthew 6:9-13 [Focus on a phrase each day.]
Give us today the food we need…
Live By God’s
Word…Not Bread Alone. Jesus was in the wilderness for forty
days. Can you imagine how hungry and thirsty you would be going without food
AND water for forty days? How long can a person survive without water or food?
After reviewing several websites it
seems that a person could exist for several hours to several days without
water, but it is impossible to predict precisely how long anyone can survive
due to many variables involved including ambient temperature, health
conditions, age, and activity level—such as exercise. Survival without food is
another scenarios that has many variables, but people gave been known to
survive 21-40 days fasting from all food.
Consider that it would have been hot at
any time of the year that Jesus would have spent 40 days in the Judean desert.
The daytime temperatures vary from 20.5 C in January to 39.7 C in July (that is
68.9 F to 103.5 F). Their rainfall varies from 0 to 9 mm (0.35 inches) each
month. That is very dry! And little if anything grows there—so Jesus would not
have had much food available to Him on which to just nibble. And we think it is
dry in the Tri-Cities where we get less than 10 inches of rain a year—but there
are lots of different plants that grow wild here—some of them are even edible. Not much in the Desert of Judea.
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| Could you survive in the Desert of Judea for 40 days? |
Do not live by bread alone.
Hmm...yes, let's have some meat and potatoes with that bread—or at least some
salad and veggies. That is not what Jesus was talking about. The scripture He
was quoting is found in the Old Testament book of Deuteronomy.
- Yes, he
humbled you by letting you go hungry and then feeding you with manna, a food
previously unknown to you and your ancestors. He did it to teach you that
people do not live by bread alone; rather, we live by every
word that comes from the mouth of the LORD. Deuteronomy 8:3
The word of God provides us with
spiritual food...spiritual "bread" that is necessary for life. Where
to we find that spiritual bread? It is the word of God—the Bible. Another
reason to be reading God's word every day...and applying it to or lives. By
what bread are you living?
Prayer ~ Lord, give us this day our daily bread—give us the food we need. Show us not only morsels from Your truth—but generous loaves of truth that reveal and sustain us with Your Love and Your Grace in our lives. Thank You.
Daily Bible Reading: Job 24-28
© 2019 Text and Photos by Mickey M. Hunacek. All rights
reserved.
All scripture quoted from the New Living Translation
(NLT) unless otherwise noted.
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