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Deuteronomy chapter 8, verse 3.

And he humbled you and let you hunger and fed you with manna, which you did not know,

nor did your fathers know, that he might make you know that man does not live by bread alone, but man lives by every word that comes from the mouth of the Lord.

A great verse as God recounts how he fed his people with manna, with bread from heaven on a daily basis.

And you remember the story from the wandering of God's people,

how they longed for food, God provided them food from heaven every single day,

and it was sufficient for that day. I couldn't keep it over for the next day.

It would rot if they did. Instead, they needed to trust God every day to provide their daily bread.

And God is recounting here in Deuteronomy chapter 8 verse 3, he humbled you,

he let you hunger, fed you with man in which you didn't know, nor did your fathers know,

that he might make you know. So what was the point? What was God doing? He was teaching them

that they don't live by bread alone, but they live by every word that comes

from the mouth of the Lord.

Think about that.

God was teaching them.

He could have fed them in so many other ways, but he fed them this way to teach them

that they need his word to provide for their lives even more than

they need food every single day. They need His Word. It's their daily bread. That's what they live on. That's their sustenance. And the same is true for you and me. Our sustenance is found in the Word of God. Do we live like this? Do we wake up in the morning and think more important than breakfast is the Word of God?

More important than lunch, more important than dinner. Meditating on God's word day and night. This is my daily bread. This is how we're intended to live. And if we don't live this way,

if we neglect God's word, if we look to anything, even the basic daily necessity of food,

as more important than God's word, then we will miss the sustenance we need.

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