“Let me make myself clear,” Jesus
declares, “I am the Every Day Bread of Life.
Whoever keeps coming to me will never be hungry, and whoever puts their
trust in me will never be thirsty either.” John 6:35 EFP
If there was any
doubt as to what Jesus is trying to say, there is no doubt remaining now. He makes the first of
his classic “I Am” statements recorded by John; statements that must have made
the hair on the back of the people’s neck stand at attention. The Bread of Life is inseparable from the Giver
of Life. Material bread is easy to provide. Jesus could keep the people alive for their
entire lifetime as he did with the Israelites millennia before. But that is not the point.
Jesus
wants a permanent solution to the soul-starved and heart-hardened human
condition. Jesus came to secure a
permanent remedy to the sin problem. The
prescription is Jesus. He is the only
drink and bread that can permanently satisfy the deepest human thirst and the
hunger pangs of the human heart. We may
want to address temporal concerns, but Jesus redirects our eyes to the true
source of our despair. Manna was the
daily bread for an entire nation for forty years. Jesus is the daily bread for his people
forever. No need to collect and store. No danger of spoilage. Fresh every morning. Satisfying every time. Drink it up.
Taste and see that God is good. Every day and every moment. That is
life.
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