There you stand in front of the refrigerator holding the door open looking inside.
You’re hungry, but while the ‘fridge is full, nothing there is what you’re really looking for. How many times have you felt this way?
I personally found what I was hungry for during the summer of my sophomore year at the University of Pittsburgh. In this audiofile, I explain how I found it.
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I’ve looked for the source on this for years. Finally, I found this reference and have posted it below. ~Steve
“On seeing several criminals being led to the scaffold in the 16th century, English Protestant martyr John Bradford remarked, ‘There but for the grace of God, goes John Bradford.’ His words, without his name, are still very common ones today for expressing one’s blessings compared to the fate of another. Bradford was later burned at the stake as a heretic.” From the “Encyclopedia of Word and Phrase Origins” by Robert Hendrickson, Facts on File, New York, 1997.
May I ask some personal questions?
Have you ever mistakenly elevated your physical needs and desires above your relationship with God?
Your sex life? Your friendships? Your finances? It would be very easy to believe the devil when he tempts us to consider these things more important than our walk with God. It would be easy to turn worthless stones into bread without regard for what it would do to our relationships with God.
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