I’m just going to say it — I love bread. I mean, who doesn’t? Bread is the humble star of nearly every meal. French toast in the morning, a sandwich/Chikwizz at lunch, bread and jam at dinner… it’s there. Foods come and foods go, but bread? It’s always there; from biblical times till the present day, it remains a staple food, quietly (or, in my case, loudly) making life better. It’s not just versatile; it’s also like this little social butterfly that goes well with almost everything.
Of all of the foods out there, He chose to be “The Bread of Life.” But here’s the thing, if I had to live on bread alone, it wouldn’t take long for me to start daydreaming about, well, literally anything else. Bread’s amazing, but it’s not everything. Jesus knew this too — that’s why He said, Man shall not live by bread alone, which you can find in both Luke 4:4 and Matthew 4:4, just in case you missed it the first time.
God did not design your life to be a product of your actions alone. — Pastor Dami Oguntunde
God didn’t design us to just survive off what we can create with our own two hands.
From the beginning, God made us special. Genesis 1:26 says we’re made in His image. And how did God create? He spoke, and things just… happened. Let there be light? Bam. Light. Let the waters be separated from dry land? Boom. Oceans. God didn’t break a sweat, He just spoke. When God created Adam, He didn’t hand him a rake and say, “Go work for your food.” Instead, He gave Adam a garden, already lush and thriving. Adam’s job was to tend to the garden and name things. But then came sin, and suddenly life went from Eden’s paradise to “by the sweat of your face, you shall eat bread” (Genesis 3:17–19). It wasn’t just a job anymore; it was hard labour just to get a loaf on the table.
Fast-forward to the sacrifice of Jesus, who Paul calls the “last Adam” (1 Corinthians 15:45). Jesus didn’t just come to hand out bread or make our work a little easier; He came to restore our original purpose and design. Proverbs 18:20 talks about being satisfied by the “fruit of our lips.” That’s God’s reminder to us: what we say matters. When we speak God’s promises, it’s like we’re tapping into that same creative power that first brought the world to life.
And when we get stuck in the “bread life” mentality — just working for that daily bread and nothing more — it’s like having a private jet but only using it on the driveway. We’re not using it for what it was built to do!
God invites us to trust Him, to speak His words, and to live like He’s actually on our side — because He is! It’s almost backwards to the world’s thinking; it’s like saying “I’m going to trust God to handle this” when everyone else is screaming “No, you need a five-year plan, pronto!”. You may indeed need a plan (‘cause a jet has to run on the tarmac before it takes off), but it’s a lot more than that.
So here’s the deal — bread alone isn’t enough (yes, even GrandSquare bread), but Jesus, the Bread of Life, offers us so much more. He’s calling us to live fully, to trust deeply, and to speak boldly.
So maybe next time you break bread, remember there’s more to life than just the bread itself — it’s a reminder of our original design of a life beyond bread and a God who’s there to nourish us in ways bread never could.
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