27th July 2020
NOT BY BREAD ALONE
David Abankwah
READ: Matthew 4:4
So He humbled you, allowed you to hunger, and fed you with manna which you did not know nor did your fathers know, that He might make you know that MAN SHALL NOT LIVE BY BREAD ALONE; BUT MAN LIVES BY EVERY WORD THAT PROCEEDS FROM THE MOUTH OF THE LORD.
-Deuteronomy 8:3 | NKJV
Man is a soul and lives in a body. Man doesn’t have any Spirit. We acquire a Spirit on this earth. There are two diverse Spirits here on earth: The Spirit of God and evil spirits. Many mistake the breath of life as a Spirit. It is not so! Even though the soul itself is a spiritual being which is usually immaterial and disembodied being, we should not confuse ourselves that he is a Spirit. God never created man to be a living Spirit but a living soul. It is either the Spirit of God or evil spirit that can fellowship with your soul and feed him with their character. A soul cannot live a holy life without the Spirit of God and a sinful life without the influence of an evil spirit.
Because God was aware that the body needed food to eat, He first created all the food the body needed. The earth produced all kinds of animals and plants for food. All animals and plants are dust because they all came from it. Dust must feed dust. Physical food must feed a physical body. God then made sure that after providing man physical food, He needed to feed the soul too. For this reason, He brought His Word in Genesis 2:16-17. It is the Word of God that can feed the soul because the Word of God is a spiritual food (see Psalms 119:103 and Bread of life in John 6:35). It is only spiritual food that can feed a spiritual being which is the soul.
Today many believers concentrate on working more to feed the flesh but do not think about the hunger of their souls. When the soul is facing malnutrition, he usually give you signals. Some signals can be seen in your dreams. You will see yourself eating physical foods which he or she is not supposed to eat. No physical food can be represented into the spiritual realm for your soul to eat because no food has a soul in it. One signal can be that, you sometimes feel empty within, sad, and lonely. It is not that you don’t have money or something bad has happened to you physically. The soul is hungry! He needs the Word of God!
You can eat a three square meal a day with snacks in between but you can’t read your Bible everyday? What sort of Christian are you? Opening the Bible is like a bitter medicine for you to take and you still have the guts to call yourself a Christian? Are you living on bread alone or you are living on the Word of God? Living on the Word is walking in the Spirit, because the Word of God is a Spirit (John 6:63). As we are busy about our work, families, friends, relationships, marriages, health life, entertainment, recreation and what have you that concern the body, let us also be concerned about our souls by feeding Him with the Word of God daily.
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Lift up prayers for the constant awareness and diligence to feed the soul with the Word of God as you feed the body with physical food in the name of Jesus Christ.
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If believers feed their souls the same way they feed their bodies, then spiritual death will be far fetched
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