Read John 6:35 and 41-51

Thursday

Read John 6:35 and 41-51

35 “I am the bread of life,” Jesus told them. “Those who come to me will never be hungry; those who believe in me will never be thirsty.

41 The people started grumbling about him, because he said, “I am the bread that came down from heaven.” ⁴²So they said, “This man is Jesus son of Joseph, isn’t he? We know his father and mother. How, then, does he now say he came down from heaven?”

43 Jesus answered, “Stop grumbling among yourselves. ⁴⁴No one can come to me unless the Father who sent me draws him to me; and I will raise him to life on the last day. ⁴⁵The prophets wrote, ‘Everyone will be taught by God.’ Anyone who hears the Father and learns from him comes to me. ⁴⁶This does not mean that anyone has seen the Father; he who is from God is the only one who has seen the Father. ⁴⁷I am telling you the truth: he who believes has eternal life. ⁴⁸I am the bread of life. ⁴⁹Your ancestors ate manna in the desert, but they died. ⁵⁰But the bread that comes down from heaven is of such a kind that whoever eats it will not die. ⁵¹I am the living bread that came down from heaven. If anyone eats this bread, he will live for ever. The bread that I will give him is my flesh, which I give so that the world may live.”

Think

At the beginning of John 6 we learn that the time of the passover was near.  On their journey from slavery to freedom the Israelites were sustained by Manna - Jesus is compared to that Manna.  Mysteriously, Jesus is the food we need to journey from slavery in sin to freedom in God.

Pray

Lord you are the strength that I need to be the person I need to be.