Living Bread

“For the bread of God is He who comes down from heaven and gives life to the world. I am the Bread of Life.” John 6:33 and 35

The bread of God isn’t a thing. It is a person. If I feed someone bread today will they live forever? No! But if someone comes to Christ today, believing that He is the full provision of God for life now and forever; then they will live forever. Jesus had just fed five thousand people with a few loaves and fish. They remembered the wilderness wandering and how God had fed them every day for forty years. They wanted the same earthly provision from Jesus. “Prove you are God by feeding us bread every day for forty years,” was their taunt. Jesus said I can do better than that. “I am the Bread of Life. This is the bread which comes down from heaven that one may eat of it and not die.”

The question is, would we like to eat bread forty years and then die, or would we like to eat the Bread of Life and live forever? Jesus gave Himself on the cross for our sins. The night before He did that He took bread and gave it to His disciples and said, “This is my body which is broken for you.” The true Bread of God is Jesus Christ, His death and resurrection. He who feeds on this bread will live forever. As we share the love of God with those in need, we must not forget to make sure they also hear that it is Jesus Christ who alone can save them, not just from hunger, but from eternal death.

Dear Father, thank You for the gift of the Bread of Life and the eternal feast it provides for me. Amen.

  The Friday Benediction

Until Monday, my friends, may the good God envelop you with His grace; may you prove the common confession of faith, “I believe in the holy Christian church and in the fellowship of the saints”, and may you be enriched with joy and hope as you exercise that confession this weekend.  Amen

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