God has designed us to crave; to hunger and thirst daily for a filling of two kinds of food. He invites us to eat and to drink of Jesus so that we can become full. Just as we depend on Jesus for our spiritual nourishment, we also need to depend on Jesus for the spiritual nourishment of our lives. We must feed on him daily. Only then will we have the fresh bread from heaven that we need to give to both the spiritually and naturally hungry. The poor in Africa have a concept of this hunger that we will never understand as Westerners- we are too full. They understand what it means to truly want and to truly be satisfied. We cannot live on yesterday’s manna or old revelation. We will grow stale like the bread we eat if we try to. A lot of times as Westerners we tend to live off of stale bread, crumbs, and garbage and are so poor and pitiable. Pride keeps us from affirming that the poor could have something we need. Attending a conference is not enough. We must daily eat and drink from the Word. Fill our hunger and thirst with the Word- Jesus is the Word- the Bread of Life. We must eat and drink until we are dripping Jesus everywhere we go.
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