The most beneficial Bread

Never hunger; never thirst

The Bread of Life

In my studies and my writings I spend a lot of time thinking about health and nutrition; healing and the body. As this week draws to a close I am reminded about the true bread of life and our one and only true Physician.

We live in God alone and for Him. Without Him there is no life. As you know, here at Pilgrim’s Well I share holistic nutritional information and knowledge on herbs for healing. Even though these things do profit, godliness is more profitable, as we read in the scriptures in 1 Timothy 4: 8 - 9

“For bodily exercise profits a little, but godliness is profitable for all things, having promise of the life that now is and of that which is to come. This is a faithful saying and worthy of all acceptance”

Godliness here is the greek word “Eusebeia” which means piety, holiness.

Piety reminds us to be reverent and devotional. This is what is truly profitable for all things. Our reverence, our awe and our devotion only belong to YHWH. He is our life and our breath and our everything; in this life and the one to come.

I am always in awe when I read the verse of how man truly lives in Deuteronomy 8: 3

“ So He humbled you, allowed you to hunger, and fed you with manna which you did not know nor did your fathers know, that He might make you know that man shall not live by bread alone; but man lives by every word that proceeds from the mouth of YHWH.”

And then Messiah came and He affirmed as is written in John 6: 48-51:

“ I am the bread of life.  Your fathers ate the manna in the wilderness, and are dead. This is the bread which comes down from heaven, that one may eat of it and not die. I am the living bread which came down from heaven. If anyone eats of this bread, he will live forever; and the bread that I shall give is My flesh, which I shall give for the life of the world.”

And again in John 6: 35

“And Jesus said to them, 'I am the bread of life. He who comes to Me shall never hunger, and he who believes in Me shall never thirst.”

And in Revelation 19:13 it is written of Jesus:

“He was clothed with a robe dipped in blood, and His name is called The Word of God.”

Hallelujah!

So then friends, let us encourage each other in the days of our sojourning toward piety, reverence and devotion; for those are the things that are truly beneficial.

Shabbat Shalom