No Kitchen

For I am persuaded, that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor powers, nor things present, nor things to come, nor height, nor depth, nor any other creature, shall be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord. —Romans 8:38, 39, KJV

One of my former students, a very brilliant young woman, married the man of her dreams. He was equally brilliant. They had been in my class together.

In time, they decided to build a house.

Finding a plot of land with highway access, they designed a floor plan that included a master bedroom with an en suite bathroom, a second bathroom, two offices, and a large gathering room. About to submit the plans to the building authorities, she noticed a glaring omission. They had no kitchen! Frantic, she called a high school friend who now owned a construction company. Immediately, he and a crew member flew down to solve the problem. Just as the kitchen is the hub of the home for our physical needs, likewise, the Word of God is the center of our daily spiritual needs. When Jesus came to Earth two millennia ago, He also alluded to this when He said, “I am the bread of life. He who comes to Me shall never hunger, and he who believes in Me shall never thirst” ( John 6:35, NKJV). Ellen G. White expanded on that thought: “Fill the whole heart with the words of God. They are the living water, quenching your burning thirst. They are the living bread from heaven. . . . And He [ Jesus] explains Himself by saying, ‘The words that I speak unto you, they are spirit, and they are life.’ John 6:53, 56. Our bodies are built up from what we eat and drink; and as in the natural economy, so in the spiritual economy: it is what we meditate upon that will give tone and strength to our spiritual nature.”* As my students forgot an essential component of their home, so we must not forget our daily bread of life.

Glenda-mae Greene

* Ellen G. White, Steps to Christ (Washington, DC: Review and Herald®, 1977), 88.