Sunday, August 18, 2024 —
There are many different theories about the healthiest way to eat. There’s the old food pyramid, built on a foundation of whole grains. There’s the Mediterranean diet, the Atkins diet, the Paleo diet, and many others. We can debate which is best, but what is undebatable is that whatever your diet, you are stil eventually going to die. Perhaps a vegetarian diet is indeed easier on your heart. Still, your heart is going to stop one day.
But in His Bread of Life discourse, Jesus offers food that enables us to live forever.
There are foods you might never have tasted without someone working hard to convince you to try them. Likewise, this spiritual food that Jesus describes is something no one finds appealing by nature, but distasteful. And so Jesus explains today that we need God to work wisdom and faith in us, so that we can see that this food gives life and the maturity to find this bread the most delicious of all.