Man Shall Not Live By Bread Alone – The Importance of the Word of God
Posted: Sunday, September 25, 2011
by Joel Kontinen
http://joelkontinen.blogspot.com/
Most people tend to put more emphasis on the things of this world than on spiritual issues. However, the Gospels indicate that we should prioritise the eternal over the temporal. Luke’s Gospel tells us what Jesus did when He was hungry:
“Then Jesus, being filled with the Holy Spirit, returned from the Jordan and was led by the Spirit into the wilderness, being tempted for forty days by the devil. And in those days He ate nothing, and afterward, when they had ended, He was hungry. And the devil said to Him, “If You are the Son of God, command this stone to become bread. But Jesus answered him, saying, ‘It is written, ‘Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word of God.’ ” (Luke 4:1-4).
This is a lesson for us, also. The apostle Paul exhorts us to focus on the eternal: “If then you were raised with Christ, seek those things which are above, where Christ is, sitting at the right hand of God. Set your mind on things above, not on things on the earth. For you died, and your life is hidden with Christ in God.” (Colossians 3:1-3).
While the Bible also includes instructions for living in the here and now, its perspective is not an earthly one. The followers of Christ are living in the paradoxical “already – not yet” kingdom. The only way to know more about this Kingdom is “by every word of God”.
Let us not forget to open our Bibles every day and let God’s Word edify us.
Scripture taken from the New King James Version. Copyright © 1982 by Thomas Nelson, Inc. Used by permission. All rights reserved.
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