“Though the Lord give you the bread of adversity and the water of affliction, yet your Teacher will not hide himself anymore, but your eyes shall see your Teacher.”
Isaiah 30:20
The scene
A man fasts during a season of grief. No food comforts him. But each morning, he reads one verse aloud. His daughter hears him and begins to memorize them. Years later, she calls those mornings “the days we ate the Word.”
The comfort – the tension
Adversity is not starvation—it is sustenance. Affliction is not abandonment—it is preparation. The bread and water of suffering feed the soul until the Teacher appears. And when He does, you realize: He was the meal all along.
Sweetness Drop:
You lived by bread. Now you live by Word. The Teacher is not hidden. He is the bread that came down.
Lexical Snapshot:
– מוֹרֶה (Moreh) — Teacher, from יָרָה (yarah): to aim, instruct, direct.
The Teacher is not just present—He is precise. He feeds, He guides, He reveals.
The bread of adversity becomes the body of truth. The water of affliction becomes the well of life.
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