MATTHEW 4:4 –…..It is written “Man shall not live by bread alone but by every word coming out of God’s Mouth…”
During this early phases of the year when most of the Christians are fasting, in the so called “Ten days (Ma10 Days); we ought to carefully dwell in the above scripture which Jesus qouted for the Devil when he was undergoing the infamous Temptations. This scripture has a very hidden mystery which can help someone this year to achieve where they failed all these years.
When you read the Synoptic Gospels, one thing you will come to love and admire from Jesus is that he had the right words for the right moment; both in and out of season he was ready. A workman without anything to be ashamed of…RIGHTLY DIVIDING THE WORD OF GOD ANYTIME!! Ok back to our story. Jesus is telling us that for a Man to be considered to be alive; his state of consciousness does not consist of him eating physical bread; Your so called 8th Wonder of the World (SLICED BREAD). This rightly leads us to the state of affairs in this moment; you are fasting which is literal abstinence from Bread; You do not die from this act but you may be drained of energy because it the whole purpose of fasting which is to please a divine authority by making your flesh suffer.
The Deal is in the DETAIL; The chief purpose of this piece is not the bread part; rather it is in the statement that makes a man ALIVE “every word coming out of God’s Mouth.” This means that God is always speaking and IF you stop hearing death is coming your way. OK LETS FOCUS; we will come to this hearing part in later installments. RIGHT NOW lets focus on the EVERY WORD— part this means when God is speaking to us, he does so through a number of means. Therefore, paying attention to some words and not others is just the same as taking bread alone and forgetting the words coming out of GOD’s mouth. Both activities are EQUALLY CATASTROPHIC.
From the above passage we come to understand that it is very important to take in the Word of GOD in all its FORMS. This explains the every word spoken by GOD part. Some of us take in the word of God in the written form ONLY, even though the bible states that it and of itself is not complete “Now there are also many other things that Jesus did. Were every one of them to be written, I suppose that the world itself could not contain the books that would be written. (John 21:25).” If we stick to this manner of thinking we will be forgetting the spoken word of God which is the Word of the moment.
Prophet Makandiwa accurately captured this by saying “The bible tells you who to marry as in the character, but will not tell you the name. The bible will tell you what to do as in working with your hands but it will not tell you that go and work at the Coca-Cola company.” At this juncture note that, when you marry wrong, when you work at the wrong company, death befalls you. So please get where I am going with this piece.
Do you know even your Kidneys will be decoding God’s information whilst you are sleeping? Check Psalms 16:7 “I will bless the LORD who counsels me; even at night my REINS instructs me.” So even when you are not paying attention physically your internal organs will be hearing God speaking and taking in instruction. This then tells you why organ failure makes you dead, because your body will no longer be listening to God’s voice so you DIE!. You see that no word Jesus spoke cannot be verified scientifically and are true even 2026 years later!! You see, sometimes you will be living because you will be paying attention to God’s word subconsciously but consciously death will be the order of the day in your dealings because you will ignoring the spoken word for direction even though you will be having the written word. There is no Faith without hearing God’s voice.
So this year to live learn to seek God’s word, both spoken, written and even your dreams because life consist of listening to God speaking. Bread does not guarantee your livelihood but God’s voice does. Learn to live, Learn to Listen to God’s word.
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I AM DARRYL THE RABBI