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JESUS IS OUR DAILY BREAD, NO. 2. * HAVE YOU GOT A “NOW” APPETITE?
2. JESUS IS OUR FILLING BREAD
Exodus 16:12: “In the morning ye shall BE FILLED WITH BREAD.”
God wants His people to be filled with bread, His living Word, each new morning. If we do not get filled with the Bread of Heaven every morning, our appetites will crave other sources of food.
We become what we fill ourselves with. We need to be a people with an ever-increasing appetite for Jesus Christ, the Living Bread.
I love to sing the great old hymn, “Guide me O thou Great Jehovah.” The last lines of the first stanza say:
“Bread of heaven, Bread of heaven,
Feed me till I want no more;
Feed me till I want no more.”
Matthew 5:6; ”Blessed are they which do hunger and thirst after righteousness: for they SHALL BE FILLED.”
Luke 6:21: “Blessed are ye that hunger NOW: for ye SHALL BE FILLED.” The word NOW is an important word when it comes to feeding on God’s Word which also means to feed on Christ NOW, and at all times.
It is true that we need to have a “now appetite” when it comes to Jesus who is our Daily Bread. He does not want us to be treating Him as past bread or future bread when we hope we may have a better appetite for Him. No. He wants us to have a ravenous appetite for Him RIGHT NOW. He wants to fill us to the full right now. The bread upon the “Table of Shewbread” in the tabernacle was called the “Presence Bread” speaking of God’s continual presence, not past or future, but NOW.
Have you got a NOW APPETITE?
At the original Passover, they had to eat the entire lamb. Many Christians these days have a very picky appetite for the Bread of God. They want to hear Jesus concerning His grace, but they have little appetite for all His truth.
John 1:14, 17: “The Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us, (and, we beheld his glory, the glory of the only begotten of the Father,” FULL OF GRACE AND TRUTH . . . For the law was given by Moues, but grace and truth came by Jesus Christ.”
2 Corinthians 6:2: “Behold, NOW is the accepted time; behold, NOW is the day of salvation.”
Our relationship with Jesus should be RIGHT NOW—not somewhere in the past or future.
Be encouraged.
More points to come.
Colin Campbell
