Day 61 | Tuesday, 19 May 2020

​Day 61  |  Tuesday, 19 May 2020

I am following up on the comments from the Church Mouse from yesterday and taking us into our faith journey.  In John 6:26-58, our hunger is satisfied by the living bread of Jesus.  As well as being prepared physically, we need to spiritual food as well.  As the bread of life, Jesus is the source of life.  “Unlike other allegedly life-giving gifts, Jesus satisfies human need fully and permanently.” CEB p1342 In the affirmation that partaking of the life giving bread of Jesus means eternal life, eternal life is both present and future.  Yes, we need to be prepared with our physical needs, but we also need to be prepared with our spiritual needs.  We will need all our resources to continue the journey through this pandemic.

John 6:26-58 Bread of life

26 “Jesus replied, “I assure you that you are looking for me not because you saw miraculous signs but because you ate all the food you wanted. 27 Don’t work for the food that doesn’t last but for the food that endures for eternal life, which the Human One will give you. God the Father has confirmed him as his agent to give life.” 28 They asked, “What must we do in order to accomplish what God requires?” 29 Jesus replied, “This is what God requires, that you believe in him whom God sent.” 30 They asked, “What miraculous sign will you do, that we can see and believe you? What will you do? 31 Our ancestors ate manna in the wilderness, just as it is written, He gave them bread from heaven to eat.”  32 Jesus told them, “I assure you, it wasn’t Moses who gave the bread from heaven to you, but my Father gives you the true bread from heaven. 33 The bread of God is the one who comes down from heaven and gives life to the world.”

34 They said, “Sir, give us this bread all the time!”

35 Jesus replied, “I am the bread of life. Whoever comes to me will never go hungry, and whoever believes in me will never be thirsty. 36 But I told you that you have seen me and still don’t believe. 37 Everyone whom the Father gives to me will come to me, and I won’t send away anyone who comes to me. 38 I have come down from heaven not to do my will, but the will of him who sent me. 39 This is the will of the one who sent me, that I won’t lose anything he has given me, but I will raise it up at the last day. 40 This is my Father’s will: that all who see the Son and believe in him will have eternal life, and I will raise them up at the last day.”

41 The Jewish opposition grumbled about him because he said, “I am the bread that came down from heaven.”

42 They asked, “Isn’t this Jesus, Joseph’s son, whose mother and father we know? How can he now say, ‘I have come down from heaven’?”

43 Jesus responded, “Don’t grumble among yourselves. 44 No one can come to me unless they are drawn to me by the Father who sent me, and I will raise them up at the last day. 45 It is written in the Prophets, And they will all be taught by God. Everyone who has listened to the Father and learned from him comes to me. 46 No one has seen the Father except the one who is from God. He has seen the Father. 47 I assure you, whoever believes has eternal life. 48 I am the bread of life. 49 Your ancestors ate manna in the wilderness, and they died. 50 This is the bread that comes down from heaven so that whoever eats from it will never die. 51 I am the living bread that came down from heaven. Whoever eats this bread will live forever, and the bread that I will give for the life of the world is my flesh.”

58 This is the bread that came down from heaven. It isn’t like the bread your ancestors ate, and then they died. Whoever eats this bread will live forever.”

“You satisfy the hungry heart with gift of finest wheat.  Come, give to us, O saving Lord, the bread of life to eat.”   “Become to us the living bread by which the Christian life is fed, renewed, and greatly comforted.”  Hear our Prayers, Amen
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Today: Let us again pray for the medical professionals