Bread that Satisfies

After Jesus’ miracle of the loaves and fishes, all of the people were full, including Jesus’ followers.

So later, Jesus starts talking about how he is the “bread of life” and how back in the day – the ancestors ate manna from heaven and still died.  Yet those who eat the bread of life will never die.  Of course all of this talk irritated the “religious” leaders who listened.

We have all experienced answered prayer, having God provide for our needs, and even miracles from time to time.  Yet, the next time a huge impossibility arises in our face, we fret and hope for another miracle.  There’s nothing wrong with that.  But the fact is, each one of those things satisfies for the moment, and we become full, until we are empty again.

Jesus wants a relationship with us where we are full of Him, his mercy, his grace, his loving kindness, his goodness, etc. and wants these things to be what we crave – more than a physical manifestation of a miracle.  It’s then and only then that we will be truly satisfied and no longer searching for miracles to our circumstances.  We will eat the bread of life, and life will be ours. Period.

He is the bread of life that satisfies.  Not the bread on our table.