What Sustains
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What sustains you? What enables you to live? What are you living for?
As people who are crafted for a relationship with God and his word, we need more than food to sustain us. Our lives consist of more than our physical appetites.
We can be tempted to live to consume and to satisfy ourselves, but God calls us to more. God calls us to be sustained by his word.
When Jesus was tempted by the enemy to turn stones into bread, Matthew’s gospel tells us “Jesus answered, ‘It is written, ‘Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that comes from the mouth of God.’” (Matthew 4:4, ESV).
Food is not the only thing that sustains us. We do not live simply through the satisfaction of our bodies. We live by every word that comes from God’s mouth. The word of God truly sustains us.
May we be sustained by every word that proceeds from the moth of God.
A Collect for the Renewal of Life: “O God, the King eternal, whose light divides the day from the night and turns the shadow of death into the morning: Drive far from us all wrong desires, incline our hearts to keep your law, and guide our feet into the way of peace; that, having done your will with cheerfulness during the day, we may, when night comes, rejoice to give you thanks; through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.” (Book of Common Prayer, 2019).
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