Jesus the bread of Life

Day LXVII

John 6




 25 When they found him on the other side of the lake, they said to him, “Rabbi, when did you get here?” 26 Jesus replied, “I tell you the solemn truth, you are looking for me not because you saw miraculous signs, but because you ate all the loaves of bread you wanted. 27 Do not work for the food that disappears, but for the food that remains to eternal life – the food which the Son of Man will give to you. For God the Father has put his seal of approval on him.”
 28 So then they said to him, “What must we do to accomplish the deeds God requires?” 29 Jesus replied, “This is the deed God requires – to believe in the one whom he sent.”  30 So they said to him, “Then what miraculous sign will you perform, so that we may see it and believe you? What will you do? 31 Our ancestors ate the manna in the wilderness, just as it is written, ‘He gave them bread from heaven to eat.’”
 32 Then Jesus told them, “I tell you the solemn truth, it is not Moses who has given you the bread from heaven, but my Father is giving you the true bread from heaven. 33 For the bread of God is the one who comes down from heaven and gives life to the world.” 34 So they said to him, “Sir, give us this bread all the time!”
 35 Jesus said to them, “I am the bread of life. The one who comes to me will never go hungry, and the one who believes in me will never be thirsty. 36 But I told you that you have seen me and still do not believe. 37 Everyone whom the Father gives me will come to me, and the one who comes to me I will never send away. 38 For I have come down from heaven not to do my own will but the will of the one who sent me. 39 Now this is the will of the one who sent me – that I should not lose one person of every one he has given me, but raise them all up at the last day. 40 For this is the will of my Father – for everyone who looks on the Son and believes in him to have eternal life, and I will raise him up at the last day.”  
 41 Then the Jews who were hostile to Jesus began complaining about him because he said, “I am the bread that came down from heaven,” 42 and they said, “Isn’t this Jesus the son of Joseph, whose father and mother we know? How can he now say, ‘I have come down from heaven’?” 43 Jesus replied, “Do not complain about me to one another. 44 No one can come to me unless the Father who sent me draws him, and I will raise him up at the last day. 45 It is written in the prophets, ‘And they will all be taught by God.’ Everyone who hears and learns from the Father comes to me. 46 (Not that anyone has seen the Father except the one who is from God – he has seen the Father.)  47 I tell you the solemn truth, the one who believes has eternal life. 48 I am the bread of life. 49 Your ancestors ate the manna in the wilderness, and they died. 50 This is the bread that has come down from heaven, so that a person may eat from it and not die. 51 I am the living bread that came down from heaven. If anyone eats from this bread he will live forever. The bread that I will give for the life of the world is my flesh.”
 52 Then the Jews who were hostile to Jesus began to argue with one another, “How can this man give us his flesh to eat?”53 Jesus said to them, “I tell you the solemn truth, unless you eat the flesh of the Son of Man and drink his blood, you have no life in yourselves. 54 The one who eats my flesh and drinks my blood has eternal life, and I will raise him up on the last day. 55 For my flesh is true food, and my blood is true drink. 56 The one who eats my flesh and drinks my blood resides in me, and I in him. 57 Just as the living Father sent me, and I live because of the Father, so the one who consumes me will live because of me. 58 This is the bread that came down from heaven; it is not like the bread your ancestors ate, but then later died. The one who eats this bread will live forever.”

Brothers and Sisters as we continue our last conversation about Jesus Christ our savior let us explore what he have said. He said he is the bread of life - bread is a symbol of food to live. We cannot live without bread  or FOOD here on earth. In the same context we cannot have life after death without him. God's words are true, real and it lives forever. When God said thousand of years before Christ that someone is going to come and he will be raised from dead - it happened. The scriptures proved and continuously showing its power of reality. If you want to have life, if you need that kind of life and you have faith that there is eternity the only way to that is through Jesus Christ. He said the his body and blood are what we need to have this life. Who ever eats this will gain that life. I asked the Holy Spirit for these interpretation and these are what he said.

The word "EAT" them represents for us to take it in our hearts and be hungry and thirsty for them. Hungry for the greatness of Jesus, to be with him in eternity, to have the need to be like him and to be in us.

The word "Body" represents a lot of meanings - The Human ways how Jesus lived or being like Christ in our ways (his being) - walk, talk, think and act like him. Body represents our imitation of earthly body to be like without defect and perfect like him. We should imitate his character and always take look on his holiness every time to purify us.

The "Blood" represents the words of our God which flows with wisdom, teaching, guidance, praise, love and holiness. We would need these words daily to guide us and to strengthen our faith. Like fluid we need to have a great circulation of great holy spirit in our lives.

Friends Jesus is the real way, truth and life. Have you ever heard of having an IDOL or Mentor or role Model that a person is looking at to become like him/her? May we find a great model without fault and defect. And I am sure all human beings are not perfect enough to be like the Model I believe in. Let us look at Jesus the perfecter of our Faith because through him we can see hope and future. God bless you with hungry and thirst for Jesus and seek for his favor. As he have said - ask and you will receive, seek and you will find and knock and the door will be open. We just need to act and believe.