MORNING MANNA 7-18-22
HAVE YOU OPENED IT?
“But he answered and said, It is written, Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceedeth out of the mouth of God.”– Matt. 4:4
During Super Bowl XXXVII, FedEx ran a commercial that spoofed the movie. In the send-up, after the FedEx employee delivered the package he had protected for so long, curiosity got the best of him. “Excuse me,” he asked the recipient, “what was in that package after all?”
She opened it and showed him the contents, saying, “Oh, nothing really. Just a satellite telephone, a global positioning device, a compass, a water purifier, and some seeds.”
No doubt those things would have come in handy for a man stranded on a deserted island!
The Bible is also something filled with good things that we miss if we neglect to open it. Many will neglect to open it because they have suspicions about its dependability. They’ve read or heard enough skeptical reports to doubt that the New Testament takes us right back to the actual words and actions of Jesus.”
Some people are Bible believers only to the extent that it says something they want to believe or do. They reject what they resent– which is just about everything that isn’t fun and easy.- HDS
David Stone
Lakeway Baptist Church
5801 FM 1960 E
Humble, TX. 77346
