Mat 4:2 And when He had fasted forty days and forty nights, afterward He was hungry.
Mat 4:3 Now when the tempter came to Him, he said, “If You are the Son of God, command that these stones become bread.”Mat 4:4 But He answered and said, “It is written, ‘Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceeds from the mouth of God.’ ”
Before the onset of his his ministry here on earth, Jesus prayed and fasted for forty days and forty nights. The tempter first tried to make Jesus doubt he was God- ” If you are the Son of God” then prove it! For sure, having stayed for that period of time without food , Jesus would have used that opportunity for his own comfort and convenience; He could have a life of ease (Applied New Testament Commentary, Thomas Hale)
However, Jesus overcame Satan by quoting Deu 8:3 “So He humbled you, allowed you to hunger, and fed you with manna which you did not know nor did your fathers know, that He might make you know that man shall not live by bread alone; but man lives by every word that proceeds from the mouth of the LORD . The Israelites were to trust God alone and live as per his word. Man cannot live fully spiritually by eating bread only. He was designed to live by the word of God.
Man devoid of the word of God is miserable and hopelessly loitering within the globe. The blueprint for your life is God’s Word, the Bible. It provides God’s guidelines for you, the path for you to follow. For man to operate optimally and fulfill the purpose of his being , he must obey God’s word. The physical bread is not enough for authentic life .Man is designed to live by every word that proceeds from the mouth of the Lord .
Further reading:
Job 23:12
Psa 138:4
Joh 6:35
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