True Bread That Lasts!

With Christmas being eight days away many of us are busy decorating, fulfilling wish lists, attending holiday parties, partaking of  fine bread, elaborate meals and good drinks. But what this season represents is so much more than satisfying our souls with gifts, parties, good drinks and find food and bread. This season represents God sending His Son, Jesus Christ, the Bread of Heaven to satisfy our souls.

Jesus says in John 6:35, “I am the bread of life; whoever comes to me shall not hunger, and whoever believes in me shall never thirst". 

Here Jesus is comparing Himself to the bread He miraculously created for the 5000 people He fed from two fish and five loaves of bread. That was a physical bread that nourishes for now and will perish but He is a spiritual bread that last forever and brings eternal life. The manna (bread) in the wilderness sustained the children of Israel on their journey to the Promised Land, but it could not produce eternal life for the Israelites. By likening Himself to bread, Jesus is saying He is essential for life and that life isn’t a physical life but eternal life. The manna from heaven that the children of Israel experienced foreshadowed the unique bread of the Lord’s Supper, which Jesus gave to His disciples the day before His sacrifice. The bread that Jesus offers His disciples at the Last Supper sustains us for an abundant supernatural life of God, which sustains us both now, and for eternity. 

Jesus Christ is the “true bread” – the bread of God. He  was sent from heaven in the form of flesh to sustain, strengthen and satisfy us not only for the day or this season, but  for eternity! Let's not lose sight of the purpose of Jesus being born in a manger with a divine purpose to fulfill and that was to die on a cross to reconcile humankind back to our Father.

Jesus is the Bread of Life and we should feed on Him daily! He alone can satisfy our spiritual cravings. No religion, philosophy, or doctrine or holiday can do that. No work of charity or giving can satisfy our soul like Jesus. Only Jesus can fully satisfy our soul. If you embrace Jesus by faith, you will discover that those temporal things that satisfy you in the right now cannot fill the emptiness within you like the Living Bread. But God will never force His sustaining “Bread of Life” upon us, 
we must become aware of our own soul hunger for the sustenance that will 
fill us permanently from the emptiness within.

Have you asked the Lord for your daily bread today, and have you come to Him for the nourishment of your soul? Honor and praise HIm for the abounding provision, for giving us the True Bread, His Begotten Son and our Savior and Lord Jesus Christ. 

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