John 6:35-51
Jesus is the Bread of Life
35 Then Jesus declared, “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 as I told you, you have seen me and still you do not believe. 37 All those the Father gives me will come to me, and whoever comes to me I will never drive away. 38 For I have come down from heaven not to do my will but to do the will of him who sent me. 39 And this is the will of him who sent me, that I shall lose none of all those he has given me,but raise them up at the last day. 40 For my Father’s will is that everyone who looks to the Son and believes in him shall have eternal life, and I will raise them up at the last day.”
41 At this the Jews there began to grumble about him because he said, “I am the bread that came down from heaven.” 42 They said, “Is this not Jesus, the son of Joseph, whose father and mother we know? How can he now say, ‘I came down from heaven’?”
43 “Stop grumbling among yourselves,” Jesus answered. 44 “No one can come to me unless the Father who sent me draws them, and I will raise them up at the last day. 45 It is written in the Prophets: ‘They will all be taught by God.’ Everyone who has heard the Father and learned from him comes to me. 46 No one has seen the Father except the one who is from God; only he has seen the Father.47 Very truly I tell you, the one who believes has eternal life. 48 I am the bread of life. 49 Your ancestors ate the manna in the wilderness, yet they died. 50 But here is the bread that comes down from heaven, which anyone may eat and not die. 51 I am the living bread that came down from heaven. Whoever eats this bread will live forever. This bread is my flesh, which I will give for the life of the world.”
Jesus said He is the Bread of Life...And being the Bread of Life we need to come to Him everyday or at least regularly to be sufficient in our Spiritual nourishment...So Jesus is the LORD of our Lives, each and everyday...Believing this, faith is not a one time and one and done thing...Faith is a daily or regular thing...Faith is not a static thing or a one time act...Faith is regular and ongoing...A static faith seems to dilute over time...That is why we need our Spiritual Bread daily and regularly...
Director of Alpha and Omega Ministries and author James R. White writes, “Many in our world today want us to believe that we can except Christ simply as a Savior from sin, but not the Lord of our lives...They teach essentially that a person can perform an act of believing on Christ once, and after this, they can fall away even into total unbelief and yet still supposedly be "saved"...Christ does not call men in this way...Christ does not save men in this way...The true Christian is the one continually coming, always believing in Christ...Real Christian faith is an ongoing faith, not a one-time act...If one wishes to be eternally satiated, one meal is not enough...If we wish to feast on the bread of heaven, we must do so all our lives...We will never hunger or thirst if we are always coming and always believing in Christ...He's our sufficiency...Christ the bread from heaven...We must feed on all of Christ, not just the parts we happen to like...Christ is not the Savior of anyone unless He is their Lord as well.”...