Jesus: The Bread of Life

“This is the bread which comes down from heaven, that one may eat of it and not die.” John 6:50 NKJV

In the Gospel of John Jesus gave seven specific names to Himself. “I am the Bread of Life” was the first. Jesus reminded His Jewish listeners that God had fed them for forty years in the wilderness with manna from heaven. There were over 600,000 soldiers in the camp of Israel plus all their families. They all ate daily for forty years the manna provided by God. That is a lot of provision. Jesus said, “I am that bread.”

If the children of Israel had said, “We don’t think we should eat that stuff, it might be poison,” then they would have starved to death. They had to believe that it would feed them in order to eat it. Jesus said, “This is the work that the Father has given you to do, believe on the one whom He has sent.” That is how He concluded His lesson on His being the Bread of Life. Indeed it is by feasting on Him alone as the provision of God in the wilderness of sin that we may be saved.

Dear Father, Thank You for providing us with Jesus, the Bread of Life. Amen. 

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