May 27, 2021
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Reading along with us in John? Here’s today’s reading:
John 6 (NIV)
Jesus Feeds the Five Thousand
1Some time after this, Jesus crossed to the far shore of the Sea of Galilee (that is, the Sea of Tiberias), 2and a great crowd of people followed him because they saw the signs he had performed by healing the sick. 3Then Jesus went up on a mountainside and sat down with his disciples. 4The Jewish Passover Festival was near.......Continue Reading
I love how Jesus gives these object lessons to help us truly understand God’s plan. Multiplying the loaves and fishes and feeding the people satisfied a physical need and was a seamless way to transition into our need for spiritual feeding!
While they were confused at the time we can so clearly see now the sacrifice Jesus became to make the way and our job is to believe!
John 6
I had so many thoughts but one that stood out was the reminder to give everything I have for God (reference to the 5 loaves and 2 fish), no matter how little and He will multiply it and bless others through it.
John5. Unbelievable. How stubborn mans heart is Wanting to at least share in their salvation. They deligently studied the scriptures and truth was right in front of them. Although you claim to be able to see. You are blind. Luke 16. Even if we sent someone back from the dead. Your brothers still would not believe. UNBELIEVABLE!!!
John 6
“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.””
John 6:51 NIV
https://www.bible.com/111/jhn.6.51.niv
There are so many wonderful passages in this chapter! Jesus reassures us that by believing in Him, we will have life everlasting!
John 6
John chapter 6. There’s about 100 lessons Always wondered how the young boy with 2 fish and 5 loaves felt as he watched 1000 of people being fed with his gift. Jesus walks on water. The waves and wind that the apostles were so afraid of. Jesus walks calmly on top of that!! Jesus the bread of life. Love peters answer to. do you also want to leave. Where shall we go. You have the words of eternal life!! Amen to that!!
What a unique and powerful miracle the feeding of the 5,000 is. Think about how much food is necessary to feed that many people (and probably at least double with women and children). The food would need to be multiplied progressively. As people took from a basket or it was distributed, it would have to be increased. So this miracle was actually thousands of little miracles each time a loaf or fish was multiplied. Amazing! And just think what it is like for Him to walk on water. Defying the normal physical properties that would cause Him to sink is what a miracle is but in the varied miracles that Jesus does, Jesus shows nothing is outside of His power and control. The one exception is the human will. And that is why the work the Father requires of us is to believe. For us to take our will and orient it to what God has done and trust in it. And yet we also need the Father to draw us because faith does not come naturally to us.
And what a great analogy eating is to faith. We choose to take food in, we consume it, and it becomes part of us. So Jesus as the bread of life is to be consumed spiritually by faith, and when we follow Him and allow His principles to guide and fill us, we will never go hungry because He is able to satisfy our souls. And it is amazing to me, after everything Jesus did to reveal who He really is, that He says something hard to understand and people leave. May we be the ones when God does something hard to understand, that we resolve to stick around. Because where else are we going to go? He has the words of eternal life!
Jesus again reiterates belief in Him.
“Then said they unto him, What shall we do, that we might work the works of God?
Jesus answered and said unto them, This is the work of God, that ye believe on him whom he hath sent.”
It is interesting to think how easily (maybe) we make the spiritual connection, but perhaps it was harder then to see the spiritual/physical analogies that Christ is making. They had an especially hard time with the eating of His flesh….cannibalism?! Fortunately, He addresses their murmurs: “It is the spirit that quickeneth; the flesh profiteth nothing: the words that I speak unto you, they are spirit, and they are life.”
65He went on to say, “This is why I told you that no one can come to me unless the Father has enabled them.”