I Am – The Bread of Life
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Patricia ran away at 13. Drug addiction, an out of wedlock baby, and the murder of her infant son by a boyfriend plunged her into despair. Caught stealing, she landed in jail. Drugs masked the self-loathing that haunted her. Now, without access to drugs, Patricia’s bitterness exploded in her empty soul.
In her cell, shattered and hopeless, Patricia cried, “God, if you can hear me, if you’re real, help me, save me. I’m sorry for my rebellion. My life’s a mess; change me, lift me out of this hell.”
Instantly God and peace invaded Patricia’s life! Jesus’ wrapped her in love and lifted her into cleansing light. Her anger and bitterness melted away. Locked behind prison bars Patricia found freedom. Someone gave her a Bible and the starving rebel ate the Bread of Life. Jesus became her best friend. Gradually truth replaced lies and confusion.
When her prison term ended, Godly friends helped Patricia enter a Christian rehabilitation program and earn a college degree. During a recent musical at our church, standing in her place in the choir, Patricia told thousands about her soul food, Jesus. Transformed – from angry addict to victorious believer!
Jesus declared, “I am the bread of life. He who comes to me will never go hungry…” (John 6:35).
Hungry? Has the aroma of the Bread of Life brought you to God’s banquet table? Can you smell Jesus’ wonderful fragrance drawing you to Him?
Natural bread sustains our physical body. Christ, the heavenly bread, feeds our spirit. In Old Testament times, God rained manna upon Moses and the Hebrews in the desert. In the New Testament Jesus is our daily spiritual bread, our manna come down from heaven.
Jesus said to them, “I tell you the truth, it is not Moses who has given you the bread from heaven, but it is my Father who gives you the true bread from heaven. For the bread of God is he who comes down from heaven and gives life to the world” (John 6:32,33).
In the Old Testament priests brought wheat flour to God as offerings for the people’s sin. In the New Testament this wheat is a picture of Jesus, the Bread of Life, offered for our sin. His suffering and death on the cross purchased forgiveness for our sin. With His death He paid the price for all sin and won eternal life for anyone who will trust Him. If we believe in Him he promises we will live forever.
“I am the living bread…. If anyone eats of this bread, he will live forever. This bread is my flesh, which I will give for the life of the world” (John 6:51).
Jesus our living bread has become soul food for all people. Are you hungry? Don’t let unbelief, rebellion or carelessness keep you from Jesus and eternal life. Choose Him, eat His truth and live.
Bread of Life, feed me and satisfy my hunger. I choose Jesus as food for my soul. Amen.
Questions: Do you have a lot of anger and bitterness in your life? Are you struggling with unbelief that God can help you in the situation you are in? How big is your God?
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Kristina, yes, I also just opened Friday’s devotional and it was the same as Thursday’s. Not to fret. This team that works behind the scenes is phenomenal.
Petey, thank you for this devotional. And Lisa, what you expressed in your reply, I too, feel exactly the same way. I do sometimes feel alone. But I continue to feed the faith daily. I know it’s just a matter of time before I feel God completely. In the meantime, I pray and give thanks to God for my very existence.
Did anybody else get this devotional twice – on Thursday June 11 and then again Friday June 12?
Hi Lisa, Thank you for sharing your heart. The Christian walk is hard to embrace at times. But we aren’t to struggle with changed lives but ‘exchanged life’. We dump our sins and problems on God and He gives us His answers, grace, and joy in exchange. When I get up in the morning I pray this little prayer – ‘Jesus, I give You my mind, soul and spirit today. Use me for Your glory. Do something so stunning with me that others will know it is You and not me. Thank You.’ Try it! I think we also have to put our past under His blood, thanking Him for forgiving all our sin, and leave the past and walk away, then commit today -the present – to Him and live out of His enabling. Trusting for the present day and for the future He has for us. Trust. He loves you. He is for you. Bind Satan and demon powers and their condemning voices in the name of Jesus and live. None of us is perfect, but we are blameless because we are wrapped in His righteousness. Blessings, petey
This is such a great reminder – but I wish that it wasn’t so hard to embrace it. I am so blessed, and yet feel so far from God at times – alone. I struggle with acting Christlike now more than ever in my life – and yet God has given me so very much. I am struggling to rise to His challenge.
Hi Sharon, Life is tough. My testimony is the same as yours – only with God are all things possible. He is my life, my hope, my joy. Blessings as you serve Him
God is my life i know i could not have gotten through the things in life i have gone through without him