Jesus the Bread of Life contd.

John 6:41-59
41 At this the Jews there began to grumble about him because he said, “I am the bread that came down from heaven.” 42 They said, “Is this not Jesus, the son of Joseph, whose father and mother we know? How can he now say, ‘I came down from heaven’?”

43 “Stop grumbling among yourselves,” Jesus answered. 44 “No one can come to me unless the Father who sent me draws them, and I will raise them up at the last day. 45 It is written in the Prophets: ‘They will all be taught by God.’[d] Everyone who has heard the Father and learned from him comes to me. 46 No one has seen the Father except the one who is from God; only he has seen the Father. 47 Very truly I tell you, the one who believes has eternal life. 48 I am the bread of life. 49 Your ancestors ate the manna in the wilderness, yet they died. 50 But here is the bread that comes down from heaven, which anyone may eat and not die. 51 I am the living bread that came down from heaven. Whoever eats this bread will live forever. This bread is my flesh, which I will give for the life of the world.”

52 Then the Jews began to argue sharply among themselves, “How can this man give us his flesh to eat?”

53 Jesus said to them, “Very truly I tell you, unless you eat the flesh of the Son of Man and drink his blood, you have no life in you. 54 Whoever eats my flesh and drinks my blood has eternal life, and I will raise them up at the last day. 55 For my flesh is real food and my blood is real drink. 56 Whoever eats my flesh and drinks my blood remains in me, and I in them. 57 Just as the living Father sent me and I live because of the Father, so the one who feeds on me will live because of me. 58 This is the bread that came down from heaven. Your ancestors ate manna and died, but whoever feeds on this bread will live forever.” 59 He said this while teaching in the synagogue in Capernaum.

Jesus came to earth to save us with His perfect life. He lived the perfect sinless and blameless life so that He could take  our place on the cross. Through this our sins were carried away and forgiven. It is His body that was given up for us.

Those that are entrenched in law are unable to see Him for who He is. He is the Savior of the world, and it is necessary that He is acknowledged as such through the way that we speak with Him daily. As we pray to the Holy Spirit, we are empowered and given the strength necessary to overcome all obstacles in our lives. If we only look to what feeds the flesh yet ignores the spirit, then we will only be temporarily satisfied.

Through Jesus we find a bottomless well of life, love, and forgiveness that is devoid of fear. In Him we find rest from the trials of this world. In Him we find peace. In Him there exists every good thing. We must go to Him every day and receive His gift. #JesusSaves

Amen
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