The Bread of Life
By
Shelby G.
Floyd
Bread is one of
our most basic physiological needs of the body. When Lewis and Clark set out on
their transcontinental expedition, bread was one of the staples that they prepared
enough to take them to the mouth of the
In the book of
John, Jesus had told the people that “The
work of God is this: to believe in the one he has sent” (John
John 6:30-35
So they asked him,
"What miraculous sign then will you give that we may see it and believe
you? What will you do? Our forefathers ate the manna in the desert; as it is
written: 'He gave them bread from heaven to eat.'"
Jesus said to them,
"I tell you the truth, it is not Moses who has given you the bread from
heaven, but it is my Father who gives you the true bread from heaven. For the bread of God is he who comes down from heaven and gives
life to the world."
"Sir," they
said, "from now on give us this bread."
Then Jesus declared,
"I am the bread of life. He who comes to me will never go hungry, and he
who believes in me will never be thirsty.
NIV
Jesus is the bread
of life and the water of life. Without him and God’s word that he brought to
us, we will shrivel up and die spiritually. It was Jesus who said to the devil
who encouraged him to turn the stones into bread: “It is written, ‘Man shall not
live by bread alone, but by every word that proceeds from the mouth of God’”
(Matthew 4:4, NKJV).
Man is a triune
being—spirit, soul and body: “May God
himself, the God of peace, sanctify you through and through. May your whole
spirit, soul and body be kept blameless at the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ”
(1 Thessalonians