This life will pass away.

Today as I listened to a teaching by Steven J. Lawson, on the importance of the Word, something struck me.

I know that Christ used scripture to refute the devil while he was being tempted in the desert (found in Luke 4). But suddenly there was a truth there that hit home. After the first temptation Jesus responds with a quote from the old testament "Man shall not live on bread alone". Jesus was quoting from Deuteronomy 8:3. He only quoted a portion of that scripture. It ends with this statement "but man lives by every word that comes from the mouth of the LORD."

Steven was explaining that The word which proceeds from the mouth of God, the entire scripture, is living and breathing. It is through the hearing of this word that we are given life, eternal life, spiritual life. And so it struck me that though we live and breath here on this earth our lives here are fading like grass, 1 Peter 1:24.
The only way to attain eternal life is through the word of God and so man indeed does not live on bread alone. In fact, we die on bread alone. We may live for a time but no matter the care taken here on this earth our bodies will break down and fade away. Without the word of God we are not alive in Christ and so we do not truly live but by and through and to him. 

This is something that probably has been clear to many before me and this is probably not news to any now but I was stunned at how it was suddenly so clear in a whole new way. 

If you wish to have a clearer understanding on what Steven J. Lawson was teaching please listen to this.