Our Daily Bread

His divine power has given us everything we need for life and Godliness through the knowledge of Him who’s called us…

But that doesn’t mean that we utilize it as we should.  I believe it’s vital that we all take a look at ourselves, at our lives, to determine how we are treating God’s word.

Do we treat God and his Word like a hoard?  A cache stowed away for a time of need.  Do we hide our knowledge of it from others, buried beneath the world and accessed only when we’ve run out of other supplies…

Or do we treat God and His Word like a buffet, picking and choosing what looks and sounds good to us, what we want to apply to our lives, yet turning our noses up to, and leaving behind, the rest?  Are we getting fat on God’s goodness and grace while malnourished and deficient in the knowledge of His righteousness and justice?  

Are we treating God’s word and merely an ingredient with which we are to work to create our own gourmet meal?  Designing for ourselves the god whom we will serve and the life in which we will serve it. 

Or do we treat God and His word like our daily bread and living water?  Does He sustain us daily?  Do we go to Him humbly for our sustenance?  When we thirst, do we drink His words in and find satisfaction? When we hunger do we crave Him, do we fill ourselves with every last crumb?

Oh that I might not hoard His word, that I might find opportunity to share it liberally with the world. 

That I won’t pick and choose what I want to satisfy my hunger.  That  I might have the wisdom to crave that which nourishes and accept it with thanksgiving, while rejoicing over the delicate goodness of God’s richness…

Oh that I might gratefully accept what He offers, His preparation, and not create for myself my own imaginings.

That I might seek Him daily, in every hunger or thirst to turn to Him before anything else that this world has to offer.  That He will fill me and satisfy my every need.