My wife and I are sitting in front of... - All The Good Seed Daily Devotionals for 2025

I am the living bread which came down from heaven. If anyone eats of this bread, he will live forever.
John 6:51

My wife and I are sitting in front of a lonely chapel. The surprisingly warm November sun gradually dissipates the fog over the Inn Valley. Kufstein with its imposing castle becomes visible. We are reading the Bible together, in the Gospel of John. Then an old Tyrolean farmer comes along the path with a pitchfork on his shoulder and I greet him. “Tat’s bet’n (Are you praying)?” he asks. – “We’re just reading in the Scriptures how Judas betrays the Lord Jesus Christ and Peter denies Him, before the Lord is then condemned and crucified.” The man pauses, interested.

“Here I have something for you to read. There is even more in it about Jesus Christ.”

He turns over in his hands the two sheets I give him, looking at them, front and back. Then he says abruptly, “Hast a Bibl a (Do you also have a Bible)?”

I gladly hand him a New Testament from the boot of the car, which is fully loaded with leftover bread from a large bakery which I want to take to a farmer.

“Would you like a loaf?”

“Yes.” Gratefully, he also accepts some bread and then continues on his way.

I watch him for some time as he walks up the steep slope to his remote homestead. In one hand bread for the body, in the other the living bread for the soul. Perhaps for the first time, the Word of God has entered this lonely home to satisfy a hungry soul. Jesus Christ Himself says, “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).

Today’s reading: Isaiah 49:14-26 · Hebrews 11:8-16