Every country around the world has one great staple in its diet. In much of Europe, and the United States it is bread. In Asia their staple is rice, in New Guinea it is the sweet potato. In Central America the Hispanic diet staple is the tortilla. They have them with breakfast, dinner and supper.
In Israel their diet is centered around bread and has been since manna came from heaven. Their government subsidizes bakeries, so bread is fresh and affordable to the masses. So it was that Satan invited a hungry Jesus to turn rocks into bread (Mt. 4:3) Jesus taught us to pray for “our daily bread” (Lu. 11:3). Lazy Thessalonians were told to go to work and “in quiet fashion to eat their own bread” (2 Th. 3:12).
Jesus called himself “the true bread out of Heaven.” He said he was “the bread of life; he who comes to Me will not hunger” (Jn. 6:31-35). It was unleavened bread that Jesus broke during the last Passover saying, “This is my body which is given for you” (Lu. 22:19). We break this bread each Lord’s Day, give thanks for “our daily bread,” and are spiritually filled by the “true bread” of God’s Son.
-Dennis Doughty
