Free Food
Today’s reading: John 6:22-42
Spend your energy seeking the eternal life that I, the Son of Man, can give you. - John 6:27
I mean, who doesn’t like free food? One, it doesn’t cost, and two, it meets an immediate need. The only problem is that in 5 or so hours our bodies will have used up all the energy that the food supplied.
These people had seen Jesus feed perhaps 15,000 people on the other side and they were ready for round 2.
Jesus was working to move their hearts from fixating on immediacy and move on to permanency. This is the same kind of message He gave the woman at the well in John 4. Eternity should always be at the forefront of our minds as we try to decide how to expend our energy.
So, how can we get anything done? Should we just sit around, inactive, so we can focus solely on our belief in Jesus? If we end up there, we have missed all of what Jesus was trying to teach.
He is showing us a NEW way to live, a NEW way to hope. One that doesn’t end with death, but will step into eternal life.