YEARS AGO, during the War in eastern Europe, a party of five who had been helping to care for wounded soldiers, were fleeing before the enemy. The way was long and weary, but their greatest difficulty was the lack of food.
They were almost starving one day when they met a man who had some potatoes. They asked him what would he take for some of his potatoes. The price he asked for five potatoes, one for each of them, was the donkey that carried their baggage. It was a terrible price to pay for just five potatoes, yet they parted with their only donkey. They could live without him, but they could not live without food.
Sometimes God lets people get very hungry so that they may remember that He is the great Provider and all the food they eat comes from Himself.
But men, women, and boys and girls, have souls as well as bodies, and just as our bodies need food, so do our souls. God told His people of old that "Man doth not live by bread only, but by every word that proceedeth out of the mouth of the LORD doth man live." Deut. 8:33And he humbled thee, and suffered thee to hunger, and fed thee with manna, which thou knewest not, neither did thy fathers know; that he might make thee know that man doth not live by bread only, but by every word that proceedeth out of the mouth of the Lord doth man live. (Deuteronomy 8:3). It was because of this that Jesus said, "I am the bread of life: he that cometh to Me shall never hunger; and he that believeth on Me shall never thirst." John 6:3535And Jesus said unto them, I am the bread of life: he that cometh to me shall never hunger; and he that believeth on me shall never thirst. (John 6:35).
Messages of the Love of God 10/19/1975