Our Lighted Path

If anyone ever has wanted refreshing in Jesus, her thirsts have changed from whatever tears the body down, to pure thirsts: clean milk from cattle (for humanity, not so much for cats), not too much honey, purified waters from fresh streams, the unadulterated Bible word — all of which flow from the pure freedom Jesus offered all the world when He gave His life at Calvary. Some may waste all the faith they could have had on what isn't exactly the provision Heaven believed for us to have . When Jesus gave His blood, it was to alter men's appetite for murder among mankind. And don't some men put their own bodies to death through illicit sex, ungodly drugs, and sometimes drunkenness even today? ... I always remember fondly that my grandpa asked me if I drank [alcoholic drinks]. I know he knew the answer (even if it was only sometimes), and that I shouldn't, anymore. That was only one step toward recognizing the salvation Jesus paid for me at Calvary. Some may feel like Jesus...

  "But he answered and said, It is written, [Mankind lives] not by bread alone, but   by every word   that proceeds out of the   of the mouth of God." —  Matthew 4:4 When we each open a Bible, and we prayerfully want peace in heart, with all our soul, we're going to seek God in Jesus; and we're going to do that steadfastly, year after year. We may struggle with one problem or another, but, deep in heart, we never want to abandon the assembling of ourselves together not as tribes but as the body of the church. As His body, we look forward to saying, altogether, that we need everything Jesus finished for us on the cross at Calvary, the running water of His word and His spiritual giving of blood — everything of Him that helps us examine ourselves in heart ( 1 Corinthians 11:28-29 ) and cleanses away our sins. By the way, the symbolic taking of physical bread at Communion is not enough for physical hunger, and it may seem we each are eating of a separate layer ...