Daily Devotional: Tuesday, September 10 – The Bread Of Life

“Then Jesus declared, ‘I’m the bread of life. Whoever involves me won’t ever go hungry, and whoever believes in me won’t ever be thirsty.’” — John 6:35

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After I ran observe in school, my metabolism was so excessive that I’d eat tons of meals however by no means be glad. Many people can really feel this fashion spiritually.

Thinker Blaise Pascal as soon as stated, “There’s a God-shaped vacuum within the coronary heart of every man which can’t be glad by any created factor however solely by God the Creator, made identified by Jesus Christ.” What he was saying is that all of us have a non secular starvation. We attempt to fulfill that starvation with pleasure and possessions, however bodily pleasure and possessions can’t fulfill a non secular starvation. So the place can we discover satisfaction for our non secular starvation?

In John 6:35, Jesus says, “I’m the bread of life.” Proper earlier than this, He fed 5,000 males with simply 5 loaves of bread and two fish (and that doesn’t embody the ladies and youngsters who have been fed too). They requested for extra bread and fish, however as a substitute of bodily bread, Jesus provided them non secular bread — He provided Himself to them. He advised them that in the event that they eat Him, they are going to be spiritually glad and obtain everlasting life. Jesus tells us that by believing in Him, we eat Him and are nourished. In John 6:56, we discover that as we maintain believing in Him, we are going to keep linked to Him.

Have you ever trusted the Lord Jesus Christ as your Savior? When you have trusted Him, are you studying the Bible to eat it, imagine what it says, and do it?

— Ikki Soma, Iowa Wolves chaplain

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