Bread of Life - Look to the One

Are you hungry for God? As I meditate on the passage from John 6: 30-51, God asked me this provoking question. Notwithstanding the providence from God including the miraculous, I am chastened to reflect on my longing for God. Insidious is my coveting of worldly things and repugnant is my pursuit of worldly passions; I tremble at the knowledge that the nature of the old Adamic man still reigns in my heart.

"For the bread of God is He who comes down from heaven and gives life to the world." (v33) I ask myself, " Do I look to the true bread that condescended from heaven to give me eternal life?" Many times, I have failed to. Oh how blind I am to see Him..

What struck me in this passage is Jesus exposing the tough, fibrous roots of fallen life in our hearts by juxtaposing the bread(food) that sustains life on earth with the bread of eternal life - Himself. While there is no question of the importance of food, Jesus leads us to untangle ourselves from the disillusionment of self-life sustenance and draws us to the realities of our soul poverty. The real question is then, "What is our deepest need?"

Jesus demands a moral response. He always, doesn't He? In our pursuit of life, may we look to the Son and believe in Him and His promise is that we shall have eternal life (v40).

God, give me a deeper longing for the Bread of Life, whom You give so freely and lovingly. May You also draw me closer to You, that I may know You, the only true God.