No More Bread For You





John 6:28–30 (ESV) Then they said to him, “What must we do, to be doing the works of God?” 29 Jesus answered them, “This is the work of God, that you believe in him whom he has sent.” 30 So they said to him, “Then what sign do you do, that we may see and believe you? What work do you perform?

Here was a crowd that Jesus had just miraculously fed the day before. And it seems it wasn't enough. They wanted more, and they dangled belief in Him over His head as if it could be a carrot. "You want us to believe in you Jesus? Show us the bread."

 I find this chapter very interesting. It begins with Jesus showing compassion. It ends with people who sought only His gifts walk away from Him. Peter rightly declared, "Lord, to whom shall we go? You have the words of eternal life, 69 and we have believed, and have come to know, that you are the Holy One of God." John 6:68-69

 It also shows us that the main purpose of Jesus was to bring us to faith in HIM as the Savior of the world to save us from our SINS. His main purpose was not to bring free bread to any who wanted it. God made the world to operate well for those willing and able to work the ground and produce bread. Jesus' miraculous feeding was a sign to point to Him as the source of Truth and Life.

John's Gospel becomes more clear the more you stop to smell the roses while you read it. Jesus' words in John are most problematic to anyone outside of faith. In fact, if you don't come to Christ in Faith I doubt there is any helpful information at all to you in this Gospel except the condemnation of disbelief in Christ staring you in the face on every page.

Jesus is the TRUE bread from heaven. He even says, "For I have come down from heaven, not to do my own will but the will of him who sent me." John 6:38 (ESV).

I think what John 6 proves most of all is that Jesus wasn't some kind of socialist reformer. He didn't come to simply give us free bread, while Jesus did feed them that day, the feeding was to bring them to faith, not simply temporary fulness. Jesus came to deliver us from true hunger that nothing else can satisfy, the hunger of a hearts for a right standing with God.

PRAYER:
Father, may my heart be filled with the bread from heaven. Open my eyes and ears to hear Your Words and believe stronger than ever before. Settle me in faith in Jesus Name. Amen.

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