FAITH CAPSULE: Jesus is the bread of life.

John 6:22-59

A woman of Samaria had an encounter with Jesus when Jesus asked her for water. She was reluctant because it was not real for a Jew to be asking water from a Samaritan. Jesus spoke to her, “…If you knew the gift of God, and who it is who says to you, ‘Give Me a drink,’ you would have asked Him, and He would have given you living water.” (Luke 4:10) Jesus is the gift of God and He is also the living water. He is the water that never dries.
Jesus was speaking in John 6:47-51, “Most assuredly, I say to you, he who believes in Me has everlasting life.  I am the bread of life.Your fathers ate the manna in the wilderness, and are dead.  This is the bread which comes down from heaven that one may eat of it and not die. I am the living bread which came down from heaven. If anyone eats of this bread, he will live forever; and the bread that I shall give is My flesh, which I shall give for the life of the world.” Jesus is the bread of life and anyone that believes is the one that actually feeds on the bread of life.
What do you feed on that is considered more sustaining than the living bread? Truly, we are what we feed on and whatever we feed on determines what we become. Do you believe enough to accept that He is the living water and the bread of life? 
As an acclaimed believer, are you feeding yourself enough of Jesus? Jesus is the bread of life. He said in John 6:57, “… So he who feeds on Me will live because of Me.” He alone is the bread of life and feeding on Him is the only way of having His word abiding in you. The evidence of believing is the word that abides in us. John 5:38, “But you do not have His word abiding in you, because whom He sent, Him you do not believe.” Yesterday and today, many goes after Jesus to feed on bread that perishes.  Jesus, after feeding of the five thousand, many went after Him just to look for more bread to eat. Jesus, knowing the reason for their coming, responded to them and said, “…Most assuredly, I say to you, you seek Me, not because you saw the signs, but because you ate of the loaves and were filled. (John 6:26) Loaves will only fill you and get digested but the bread of life will abide in you forever. Change your appetite, get into Jesus’ reality and begin to feed of life that is in Jesus.

Prayer for today: Ask Him to feed you with the bread of heaven and to grant the grace for your life to retain the living water.