Thursday, May 11, 2006

Quote of the Day: The Bread of Heaven

To the degree that you have based your life on something other than the Lord, to that degree God’s love and the hope of the gospel will not comfort you. You will not be comforted because you are hungry for another kind of bread. You long for a king who will give you the bread you crave. That bread might be a relationship, circumstance, or position. It might be human love and respect, the desire for vengeance, or a certain economic state. It literally can be anything in creation! But there are only two types of bread: Christ, the Living Bread, and everything else. We set our hearts either on him or on something else. [Paul David Tripp, War of Words (P & R Publishers, 2000), p. 98]

1 comment:

Valerie (Kyriosity) said...

The bread may also be a distorted view of the Lord. You may think you're craving the real deal, but because you've misunderstood His character, you can't be satisfied because you're wanting the wrong thing even though you're calling it by the right name.