Light Steps: Are you full of Bread?

Thursday, July 02, 2020

Are you full of Bread?

Buh-red!

As I read John 6 this morning, I'm thinking of bread. I mean, really, all sorts of bread. I love bread!

I like white bread.
Sourdough bread... yum!
Wheat bread...
Biscuits... YESH!
Cornbread... OH MY!
Money. (Did you know "bread" is a nickname for money?)

Sound it out; shout it out: "BUH-RED!"

Some folks only want Jesus for bread. Some folks want to know God for what they can get out of Him, be that bread to eat, bread to spend or other non-bread-stuff where the principle of treating God like a vending machine remains true.

It's nothing new. In an encounter recorded in John 6, Jesus dealt with some bread-wanters: "Jesus answered them, 'Truly, truly, I say to you, you are seeking me, not because you saw signs, but because you ate your fill of the loaves.'" (John 6:26 ESV) They wanted their bellies full! They were missing out on what they really, truly needed!

Jesus continued: "Do not work for the food that perishes, but for the food that endures to eternal life, which the Son of Man will give to you. For on him God the Father has set his seal." (John 6:27 ESV)

Jesus was saying, "Y'all need something besides food for the belly!" Those guys immediately point to the heavenly manna their ancestors ate in the wilderness (ref. John 6:31). Jesus goes on to point out their ancestors ate that miraculous bread, and still died. Jesus tells them HE is the real bread they need. HE is the bread they can eat and never die!

How many of us just want our bellies and bank accounts full here in this life and miss the Bread of Life? How many of us treat God like a vending machine or an ATM? How many of us think of God as someone who should satisfy our flesh's every desire and miss out on how He desires to satisfy for the scope of eternity, not just the blink of the life?

Jesus is a Better Bread! HE IS LIFE! Want Him for Himself, and gain Him forever. He is that Bread from God that fills and keeps filling; that sustains and keeps sustaining.

Got bread? Good; eat and be filled...till noon.

Got Bread? Good; eat and be filled...FOREVER!

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This Says it for Me!

Every Christian is a contradiction to this old world. He crosses it at every point. He goes against the grain from beginning to end. From the day that he is born again until the day that he goes on to be with the Lord, he must stand against the current of a world always going the other way. God expects him to be "beside himself," "a fool for Christ's sake," "drunk on new wine." If he allows it, men will tone him down, steal the joy of his salvation, and reduce him to the dreary level of the general average. If the devil cannot keep us from being saved, he next endeavors to make average Christians of us, and in this he usually succeeds. He tames the holy recklessness of God's dare-saints until they sink into the drab pattern of most of us, "faultily faultless, icily regular, splendidly dull." The devil does not mind our joining church if we behave like most of those who are already inside. But when a real, wide-awake Christian breezes along, taking the Gospel seriously, the devil grows alarmed and begins plotting his downfall. He gets plenty of assistance right in the church, for many church folk do not like to have their Laodicean complacency upset by these who turn the world upside down. So they conspire with Satan to turn the young Christian's fever into a chill. There are always plenty of human wet blankets to smother the zealot's flame, and they have put out more spiritual fires than have all the skeptics and infidels. -- Vance Havner

A Little About Me...

I was born in South Boston, VA, but was raised on the state line in the Person Co., NC - Caswell Co., NC - Halifax Co., VA region. I always tell people you know you are a country boy when your idea of being a "multi-national" means you've been to three counties in your lifetime.

Enough of my geographical meanderings...I became a Christian (ask me about THAT!) at the age of 25 and have done my utmost to serve God since that day. I worked as an associate pastor for 4 1/2 years and now serve in the role of Executive Director of My Life Matters, where I've been since March 2005, and I also serve as the pastor of East Rock Community Church, a church plant, along with fellow elders, Brett Carver & Casey Adams, where we've been since June 2007.

I love to write. I share a devotion in our local paper each week. This blog site is really just an extension of my writing. I really hope to share the Word of God with people...any kind of people, every kind of person. I also do a weekly podcast called "Light Steps Live," which can be found on several platforms.

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