Jesus is the Bread of Life. Let’s tell everybody the great news.
Lord Jesus, I want to be Your witness everywhere I go.
Share the Bread of Life wherever you are.
Read: John 6:34–51 | Bible in a Year: Jeremiah 51–52; Hebrews 9
I am the bread of life. John 6:48
I live in a small Mexican city where every morning and evening you
can hear a distinctive cry: “Bread!” A man with a huge basket on his
bike offers a great variety of fresh sweet and salty breads for sale. I
used to live in a bigger city, where I had to go to the bakery to buy
bread. So I enjoy having fresh bread brought to my door.
Moving from the thought of feeding physical hunger to spiritual hunger, I think of Jesus’s words: “I am the living bread that came down from heaven. Whoever eats this bread will live forever” (John 6:51).
Now we have the privilege and the responsibility of pointing others to this Bread of Life. We can share Jesus in our neighborhood, in our workplace, in our school, in our places of recreation. We can talk about Jesus in the waiting room, on the bus, or on the train. We can take the good news to others through doors of friendship.
Moving from the thought of feeding physical hunger to spiritual hunger, I think of Jesus’s words: “I am the living bread that came down from heaven. Whoever eats this bread will live forever” (John 6:51).
Jesus is the Bread of Life. Let’s tell everybody the great news.
Someone has said that evangelism is really one beggar telling another
beggar where he found bread. Many of us can say, “Once I was
spiritually hungry, spiritually starving because of my sins. Then I
heard the good news. Someone told me where to find bread: in Jesus. And
my life changed!”Now we have the privilege and the responsibility of pointing others to this Bread of Life. We can share Jesus in our neighborhood, in our workplace, in our school, in our places of recreation. We can talk about Jesus in the waiting room, on the bus, or on the train. We can take the good news to others through doors of friendship.
INSIGHT:
Many items in John’s gospel combine Jesus’s works and His words.
For example, He feeds more than 5,000 people with bread in John 6 and
declares Himself “the bread of life.” Here’s the world’s superlative
show-and-tell—He does what He is. In the ancient world of Israel, probably the number one food item was bread. In effect, it served as the
staple food. Jesus said, “Man shall not live on bread alone” (Matt.
4:4). However, if we don’t live on some bread (that is, food), we won’t
have physical life for long. Just as “bread” is what supplies us with
physical life, Jesus is the One who supplies us with spiritual life.
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