I Am The Bread Of Life
Many of us when we give our will and life over to the care of God look for tangible signs that God is with us. We want to prosper and be in health and have a meaningful life, but this is not what God wants us to seek after. When some people witnessed Jesus feeding more than five thousand men, women, and children with five small loaves and two fish and saw there was a surplus of twelve baskets left over, they went looking for Jesus for He had departed from that place. When they found Him, they asked how he got to where He was.
Jesus answered, “You’ve come looking for me not because you saw God in my actions but because I fed you, filled your stomachs—and for free. Don’t waste your energy striving for perishable food like that. Work for the food that sticks with you, food that nourishes your lasting life, food the Son of Man provides. He and what he does are guaranteed by God the Father to last.” (John 6:26-27 MSG)
After some dialogue the same people asked Jesus to give them a further sign so that they might see and believe what He was saying. Some of us are like these people, we have witnessed the miracle of many lives changed by the power of God and are still asking for more signs so that we might believe and follow the ways of God. The requirement for God to work in our lives is that we believe in the One He sent.
Jesus said to them, “I am the bread of life; the one who comes to Me will not be hungry, and the one who believes in Me will never be thirsty. If anyone hears what I am saying and doesn’t take it seriously, I don’t reject him. I didn’t come to reject the world; I came to save the world. But you need to know that whoever puts me off, refusing to take in what I’m saying, is willfully choosing rejection. (John 6:35 NASB; 12:47-48a MSG)
If we choose to believe on Jesus, the One God sent, we will never hunger or thirst for righteousness, for we shall be filled.
Prayer: Lord Jesus, I choose to stop looking for signs and just feed on Your word to make me whole. Amen
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