Blaise Pascal once said: “What else does this craving, and this helplessness, proclaim but that there was once in man a true happiness, of which all that now remains is the empty print and trace? This he tries in vain to fill with everything around him, seeking in things that are not there the help he cannot find in those that are, though none can help, since this infinite abyss can be filled only with an infinite and immutable object; in other words by God himself” In this world, we thirst, we hunger something more, something that will quench our deepest needs.  The scripture says we build our own wells, broken wells that will never satisfy.  In the Lord's prayer, we are called to ask God for our daily bread - could Jesus have meant more than simple sustenance?  Could He have...

"The first thing I did, after having asked in a few words the Lord’s blessing upon His precious Word, was to begin to meditate on the Word of God; searching, as it were, into every verse, to get blessing out of it; not for the sake of the public ministry of the Word; not for the sake or preaching on what I had meditated upon; but for the sake of obtaining food for my own soul. The result I have found to be almost invariably this, that after a very few minutes my soul has been led to confession, or to thanksgiving, or to intercession, or to supplication; so that though I did not, as it were, give myself to prayer, but to meditation, yet it turned almost immediately more or less into prayer." - George Mueller In the beginning, God created the universe with nothing other than the word of His mouth.  With His word, He created us.  Then at Mt. Sinai, He delivered His Word, also called His Law, statutes, or commandments to Moses so we could know how to live for Him.  The Bible ...