Mark 14:12-26
The Lord's Supper
12On the first day of the Feast of Unleavened Bread, when it was customary to sacrifice the Passover lamb, Jesus' disciples asked him, "Where do you want us to go and make preparations for you to eat the Passover?"
13So he sent two of his disciples, telling them, "Go into the city, and a man carrying a jar of water will meet you. Follow him. 14Say to the owner of the house he enters, 'The Teacher asks: Where is my guest room, where I may eat the Passover with my disciples?' 15He will show you a large upper room, furnished and ready. Make preparations for us there."
16The disciples left, went into the city and found things just as Jesus had told them. So they prepared the Passover.
17When evening came, Jesus arrived with the Twelve. 18While they were reclining at the table eating, he said, "I tell you the truth, one of you will betray me—one who is eating with me."
19They were saddened, and one by one they said to him, "Surely not I?"
20"It is one of the Twelve," he replied, "one who dips bread into the bowl with me. 21The Son of Man will go just as it is written about him. But woe to that man who betrays the Son of Man! It would be better for him if he had not been born."
22While they were eating, Jesus took bread, gave thanks and broke it, and gave it to his disciples, saying, "Take it; this is my body."
23Then he took the cup, gave thanks and offered it to them, and they all drank from it.
24"This is my blood of the covenant, which is poured out for many," he said to them. 25"I tell you the truth, I will not drink again of the fruit of the vine until that day when I drink it anew in the kingdom of God."
26When they had sung a hymn, they went out to the Mount of Olives.
Luke 4:1-4
Man Does Not Live on Bread Alone
1 Jesus, full of the Holy Spirit, returned from the Jordan and was led by the Spirit in the desert, 2 where for forty days he was tempted by the devil. He ate nothing during those days, and at the end of them he was hungry.
3 The devil said to him, "If you are the Son of God, tell this stone to become bread."
4 Jesus answered, "It is written: 'Man does not live on bread alone.'"
John 4:9-14
The Living Water
9The Samaritan woman said to him, "You are a Jew and I am a Samaritan woman. How can you ask me for a drink?" (For Jews do not associate with Samaritans.)
10Jesus answered her, "If you knew the gift of God and who it is that asks you for a drink, you would have asked him and he would have given you living water."
11"Sir," the woman said, "you have nothing to draw with and the well is deep. Where can you get this living water? 12Are you greater than our father Jacob, who gave us the well and drank from it himself, as did also his sons and his flocks and herds?"
13Jesus answered, "Everyone who drinks this water will be thirsty again, 14but whoever drinks the water I give him will never thirst. Indeed, the water I give him will become in him a spring of water welling up to eternal life."
Isaiah 40:28-31
God Renews Our Strength
28 Do you not know?
Have you not heard?
The LORD is the everlasting God,
the Creator of the ends of the earth.
He will not grow tired or weary,
and his understanding no one can fathom.
29 He gives strength to the weary
and increases the power of the weak.
30 Even youths grow tired and weary,
and young men stumble and fall;
31 but those of us who hope in the LORD
will renew our strength.
We will soar on wings like eagles;
we will run and not grow weary,
we will walk and not be faint.
John 1:1-3
All Things Were Made Through Jesus
1 In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. 2 He was with God in the beginning. 3 Through him all things were made; without him nothing was made that has been made.
Jesus asks us to remember Him whenever we eat and drink...We need His nourishment to sustain ourselves and to live from day to day...We may not realize this but it is He who sustains us...
Jesus tells us in the gospels that His body is like the bread we eat each day to renew our energy...He is our fuel for surviving, living, and striving...Living an abundant life is from Him...He teaches us that His blood of the covenant, which is poured out for many, is like the drink we have each day to fulfill our thirst...Our food and our drink repairs us, keeps our cells growing, and sustains us...All things were made through Him; without him nothing was made that has been made...He sustains creation and this finely tuned, organized universe...
Everyday we must drink and eat to sustain ourselves...We are to remember, we do not live on bread alone...We must remember, He is the Living Water...When we know Him, we will never thirst again, but instead we will have eternal life...
Life is more than the food we eat and the drink we have to keep us going....We need more than our daily bread each day to live...Food and drink, alone will not sustain our bodies...Man does not live on bread alone...When we hope in the LORD, He will renew our strength eternally... God is in control...It is God who knows the number of hairs on our heads, and the number of days in our lives...It is God who renews our strength, energy, and gives us the reason to go on...Jesus' Last Supper reminds us when we eat and drink, it is He that is our true sustenance...
This is what C. S. Lewis has to say in regards to this: “God designed the human machine to run on Himself...He Himself is the fuel our spirits were designed to burn, or the food our spirits were designed to feed on...God cannot give us happiness and peace apart from Himself, because it is not there. There is no such thing.”...
Let us remember Jesus when we drink and eat...And let us hope in the LORD, so we can renew our strength when we tire...That we may soar on wings like eagles, when we are down...That we may run and not grow weary...That we shall walk and not be faint in the name of the LORD...