The Bread of Life

DAY 11          WRITTEN BY: ELIZABETH BROOME

• READ

  John 6:48

  I am the bread of life.

• REFLECT

  In the Old Testament, God had given the Israelites manna from heaven to meet their physical needs, but now, God sent them Jesus, the “true bread from heaven” (John 6:32). Jesus told the people “I am the bread of life. He who comes to Me shall never hunger and he who believes in Me shall never thirst” (John 6:35). Jesus was speaking to people familiar with the Scripture of the Old Testament.

  In Deuteronomy 8, God reminded the Isrealites about the manna that He provided while they wandered in the wilderness. He told them “man shall not live by bread alone; but man lives by every word that proceeds from the mouth of the Lord” (Deuteronomy 8:3b). However, the people who ate the manna from God in the wilderness had died.

  Now in John, Jesus was offering Himself as the living bread sent from God the Father. “Most assuredly, I say to you, he who believes in Me has everlasting life” (John 6:47).

  Jesus declared this to the crowd of people, five thousand men, which He had miraculously fed the day before. The Bible says they were given as much as they wanted and were filled. But they were not satisfied because they had not allowed Jesus to meet their greatest need- their need for everlasting life.

  In both the Old and New Testament, the people were so blinded by their physical needs that they missed what God was offering to them. Jesus is the Bread of Life. Oftentimes, we are guilty of the same. We are blinded by our circumstances and forget to believe Jesus. God is always after our heart- changing it and renewing it. He wants us to be reconciled to Him which only happens when we believe in The Bread of Life. How is God trying to renew you, today? What circumstances has He allowed to strengthen your relationship with Him?

• RESPOND

  Father, help me to choose to believe You in every circumstance that I face. Help me to trust You. You have met my greatest spiritual need and are faithful to meet my physical needs. Help me to rest in your sovereignty because, just like you sent manna from heaven, you sent the Bread of Life so that I might have everlasting life. Amen.