Trail of Crumbs

Tonight was great.  I went to the weekly college service at the Church I attend, Bayleaf Baptist Church.  We had a prayer night, and it was much needed, not just for the body of believers in the college, but for me as well.  God spoke through the prayers of plenty tonight.  But what stuck out to me was the final song that we sang to wrap up the atmosphere of prayer.

Derek Webb is an amazing musician.  He says what’s on his heart in every single song he composes.  A certain song, “Take to the World,” was the song that we sang tonight.  This song was a reminder to the college group at church to take the Gospel of Christ to our culture here in Raleigh.  One of the lines in the song stood out to me,

may the bread on your tongue
leave a trail of crumbs
to lead the hungry back to the place that you are from

The bread on one’s tongue is the Love of Christ that shines through a body of sin.  The trail of crumbs are the actions we take in Love to a lost world.  The place that you are from is talking about the Cross of Christ where the pure definition of Love came from.  These words that Webb composed spoke deep to my closely-held beliefs of Love and the role of it in our lives.  The greatest commandment is to Love God with everything we are and to Love others in the same way Christ loved his bride, the church.  If the love that is shown to the world is not of ourselves, but of Christ, we will leave a trail of love that will allow for non-believers to delve into the idea of Love.

Jesus Christ said that he is the bread of life, and that anyone who eats of him will never go hungry.  The world we live in is hungry for Christ.  May we, as followers of Christ, leave trails of Love for a World that is famished, so that the Bread of Life will fill up empty souls.