2.21-Feeling burned out?

2.21-

We need something in addition to our daily bread.  The Holy Spirit who gives self-control regarding how much and how often we need to eat and drink.  God created us with a spiritual hunger in our hearts. 

 Humans by their nature are rebellious and foolish.  Those who follow in the footsteps of Jesus are always reaching out to the poor, the prisoners and the oppressed.

  

Jesus was placed into the home of Jewish parents who made it the family habit to gather with their community of faith to worship the Father in heaven together.  The congregation would listen to reading from the scrolls and these reminded them that God’s work was not simply gathering for worship, but scattering out to serve those in need. 

Sometimes the insiders to religion get so into the insider work, that they don’t serve those in need.  When they get corrected for their religion being off the rails, they respond by getting rid of the messenger and His message. 

 Jesus was focused on driving evil out of the community. He was amazing in His understanding of the Father in heaven and His boldness to love and protect the oppressed. 

Jesus was such a healer of people that more and more came to Him.   His rhythm was such that after being drained with helping and healing He needed to get away by Himself to pray and recharge His spiritual batteries.  We need more than filling with physical bread, we also need the spiritual bread of life from time with our heavenly Father.

Luke 4.

4 Jesus, full of the Holy Spirit, returned from the Jordan and was led around ^[a]by the Spirit in the wilderness ² for forty days, being tempted by the devil. And He ate nothing during those days, and when they had ended, He became hungry. ³ And the devil said to Him, “If You are the Son of God, tell this stone to become bread.” ⁴ And Jesus answered him, “It is written, ‘Man shall not live on bread alone.’”