Jesus Promises He Will Satisfy Your Hunger

Jesus Promises to Satisfy Your Hunger
 
John 6:34-35 “Sir,” they said, “from now on give us this bread.” 35 Then Jesus declared, “I am the bread of life. He who comes to me will never go hungry. He who believes in me will not thirst.” 
 
ONE could title John 6 “The Bread Speaks”. This passage is central to the narrative in this chapter. Stunning miracles occur in John 6. Jesus feeds 5,000 men plus women and children with five loaves of bread and two small fish. He walks on water and calms the storm on the sea. Matthew 14 tells us that Peter walked on water, also. 
   But the Pharisees were not satisfied. Jesus was good for a day, but they wondered if he could provide bread to them everyday as Moses had in the desert. Then Jesus said to them, “I tell you the truth, it is not Moses who has given you the bread from heaven, but it is my Father who gives you the true bread from heaven.”  (John 6:32) and he added, “Your forefathers ate the manna in the desert, yet they died. 50 But here is the bread that comes down from heaven, which a man may eat and not die.” (John 6:49-50)
   Yes, the Father had provided the true bread – his Son – to be the eternal Bread of Salvation. He declared he has sovereign authority over our eternal lives. The crowd wanted him be king in Jerusalem. But he confirmed he is not the Jews’ earthly leader. He is mankind’s Savior.
   The eternal “I Am who I Am” (Exodus 3:14) is defining his character to impact your life. God’s will along the shore of Galilee that day was to form the Jews’ lives anew as he fed them the Word of God that leads to eternal life.
   Through the Son and the Spirit, the eternal I AM has set a banquet on earth. God’s human form is a means to re-form mankind from Eden’s death to the New Heaven and earth (Revelation 22). The Bread of Life came. The Bread of Life taught. The Bread of Life was broken on the cross, resurrected, raised and renewed from the tomb. He is gathered once more into the heavenly realm, so we can consume his salvation through the Holy Spirit’s power
   Through Jesus’ life is God’s nourishing forgiveness of sins. We sit in prayer when we eat of the One who taught us to pray. We minister to others because Jesus’ servant life feeds us a servant’s heart. He is Bread who nourishes our love for God and one another. Receiving the Bread of Life, we savor ministry to the broken. Sharing the Bread of Life, we welcome people to our home for a meal and pray with them. Filled with the Bread of Life, we offer to a hungry world the eternal food of God’s blessed commands.
    Jesus, the Living Water and Bread of Life, teaches us, “Blessed are those who hunger and thirst for righteousness, for they will be filled.” (Matthew 5:6) Thirst for the Living Water. Hunger for the Bread of Life. Nourish your life with Jesus.