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John (8) The Bread of Life

I've enjoyed the film "Cloudy With A Chance Of Meat-Balls" which imagines what might happen if you had a machine that could make any food you wanted out of clouds - basically it results in madness.  The way we relate to food today is very different to in Jesus' day when you had to work for a whole day to put enough food on the table for your family that night, and there was no guarantee where tomorrow's food was going to come from.  Bread was a matter of life and death - without it you died!  So when Jesus fed five thousand people with a few loaves and fish, it made the headlines and made Him very popular for all the wrong reasons. The peoples' minds were on their stomachs, not on God.  So Jesus told them: "the bread of God is he who comes down from heaven and gives life to the world...I am the bread of life; whoever comes to me shall not hunger, and whoever believes in me shall never thirst...this is the will of him who sent me, that I should lose nothing of all that he has given me, but raise it up on the last day. For this is the will of my Father, that everyone who looks on the Son and believes in him should have eternal life, and I will raise him up on the last day" (6:33,35,39-40). He reminds them of the Israelites in the Wilderness given the manna (bread) from heaven to keep them alive until they reached the Promised Land.  Jesus says if we receive Him, then we have found the ultimate answer to life and death.  And He promises that if we have Him now then we will have life forever, because He will not fail to bring us to the Promised Land, the new creation.  We need to come to Jesus, trusting in Him, feeding on Him (following the metaphor) in order to benefit from Him and His gift of life now and forever - because food is only any good if you eat it.  Your life depends on Jesus on your journey from here to eternity, just as it does on food and water!  Don't just leave Him in the bread-bin today.

Praise God Today: "Bread of Heaven, Feed Me Now and Evermore"

Pray Today:

  • Pray for those suffering and under threat in Africa from the ebola virus outbreak - especially pray for Dr Kent Brantly and Nurse Nancy Writebol who work with SIM in Liberia who have been infected.
  • For Adrian and Heather Holdsworth in camps ministry over in southern Ireland this week, teaching teens the gospel in a 90% culturally catholic country.
  • For the team going to be working at Buckstone next week at the holiday club as they get ready for the young people.

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