Bread of God
John
6:33 (ESV)
For
the bread of God is he who comes down from heaven and gives life to the world.”
There are no wasted
words in scripture. In The Names of God:
Book I, we looked at Bread of Life –
Jesus. However, Jesus referred to Himself as both the Bread of God and the Bread of
Life. Perhaps there is a reason.
Before you are born
again the Holy Spirit is at work to woo you, to draw you to Jesus. He places in
front of you the Bread of God – that
which is given by grace to reveal to you His goodness and to give you a desire
for more. This is similar to the manna God gave Israel in the wilderness. He
was developing a relationship with a people that had forgotten Him. Four
hundred years in Egypt had cause their knowledge and love for the Creator to
grow cold, indifferent.
After working their
release from Pharaoh, God showed mercy in bringing them back to Himself by
feeding them manna (Bread of God –
Jesus), giving the water from a rock (The Rock – Jesus), providing shade from
the intense heat (Cloud by Day), and warmth in the cool evenings (Fire by Night).
All of this was done because God wanted to introduce Himself as the God of more
than enough. He wanted to show Israel that He loved them and had a plan for
them.
In like fashion, God
comes to us who also are in a wilderness, separated from our Creator. Before we
ever knew He existed the Holy Spirit was at work, drawing us toward Jesus.
People were placed in our path to speak the Truth to us. Others demonstrated
the love of God in order to show us how God intended for us to live. This is
all the Bread of God, sent from
Heaven to give us life.
Once you become a
Christian you then begin the process of becoming like Christ. You develop a
hunger for more than just manna (Bread of
God). You begin to feast on the Bread
of Life! You desire to know Him, to speak with Him, to walk with Him. In
doing so, you become the Bread of God
to others. When people see the transformation in your life it will begin to
draw them to Jesus. And the cycle continues.
The primary difference
is this: unlike Israel did with manna, we will never grow weary of a diet
filled with the Bread of Life!
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