When you eat enough you get full and satisfied and you aren’t hungry anymore (yes, I know, I’m a genius). You sit back and relax; you don’t go scrounging in the kitchen. Until you get hungry again.
One of the things that is most filling is bread. It takes up a lot of space in your belly. At its best, it’s also full of things good for you. In the old days, bread was a very basic necessity. And of course you have to have fluids, too, or you’ll die. When we joke about the most minimum diet for life, what do we say? Bread and water.
I am the bread of life; whoever comes to me shall not hunger, and whoever believes in me shall never thirst – Jesus, in John 6.35
Can you believe he’s saying that? Like food gives life and satisfies hunger, he says he’s the end of the road for hunger and thirst; the hunger and thirst for another kind of life, which is superior to physical life.
Superior but connected – this bread satisfies the soul, brings peace and overcomes the fear of death. This bread stills the hunger that leads to anger, insecurity, bitterness and the need for more, more, more. It’s the nature of belief to have that satisfaction that ends that kind of hunger.
After this many of his disciples turned back and no longer walked with him – John 6.66
It’s the nature of unbelief to grumble, argue and dispute, to not be interested and to leave. And to stay hungry and keep going back to the kitchen scrounging for something while ignoring the bread of life.
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