Our Daily Bread

The disciples not only missed the whole meaning of what Jesus was saying concerning the Pharisees, they forgot about the power that Jesus had to meet every need.

They were worried about having enough food for the body of flesh and forgot that the Bread of Life was right there with them. So what if all they had was one small load of bread! Could not Jesus multiply that loaf just as he had only hours before for the 5000?

Oh, but before we start pointing fingers at the disciples, let me pop our bubbles of pride and tell you that we are all guilty of the same thing!

We walk out of the church and resume our daily routines and it isn’t long until we discover that we don’t have enough either! The vast majority of people live paycheck to paycheck and we often worry about where the money will come from to pay our bills or buy groceries. Not only do we worry and fret over our lack of earthly things but we also discover that I don’t have enough of Jesus to make it to the other side. I need more of Him! I can never have enough of the Holy Spirit within! I am never so strong that I can make it without a daily renewal and refilling.

Some of us have been running on empty for so long that we have all but forgotten what it is to be filled with the power of God and the Spirit of God! Some have run on empty long enough until they have stopped going altogether and now they are lying dead in their sin again on the side of the road. They are going toward Heaven anymore. They aren’t looking for spiritual food anymore. Their whole desire has gone back to fulfilling the desires of the flesh and they have forgotten God!

Matthew 6:11, "Give us this day our daily bread." Luke 11:3, "Give us day by day our daily bread."

I don’t care how much of the Lord is in your heart right now, you still need a daily portion of the Bread of Life. I don’t care how much we know of His Word, we still need a daily feeding upon that Word.

If we don’t feed this earthly body it will starve and die. If we don’t feed the Spirit within then it will die also! As I look around I can see that many of feed this earthly body pretty well. It wants for very little.

But what would we look like if our spiritual body was what people saw?

Illustration:

There is a movie that was recently produced that was titled “Shallow Hal”. In that movie, Hal was given a gift of seeing a woman, not as she physically looked but as their heart would appear. There were some who were over weight, some who were not so physically appealing to the normal observer, but Hal was able to see past that and they were all so beautiful to him. No one else could see what he saw and everyone thought he was crazy. What he could see was the true inner beauty and not the outward appearance. Of course a few of those who had outward appeal actually appeared ugly and emaciated to Hal because their heart was so wicked and self-centered.

I’m not promoting a movie, but it does make a valid point for this message.

God looks upon the heart of man, not upon the outward appearance. I wonder what we look like to God? Are we beautiful, appealing and desirous to look upon or do we appear as starving, emaciated, skin and bones, ugly and disgusting, and filthy?