Never Go Hungry

Few of us in America go hungry for long, but in the world we must realize that hunger is common and yet with the amount of food produced world-wide, hunger is unnecessary.  If you have been reading the last few blogs you will know that I have been in process with making sourdough bread.  Last night we ate the bread of my labor and it was goooooood. 

Hunger is not new to the world; most people have heard of Jesus, by miracle, feeding the 5000 from five loaves of bread in Matthew 14:21, a crowd of people who gathered to hear Jesus teach.  In another area we see Jesus addressing their hunger, but He was speaking of their spiritual emptiness.

"Then Jesus declared, "I am the bread of life . He who comes to me will never go hungry, and he who believes in me will never be thirsty."  John 6:35


As it is today, many did not understand the fullness that Jesus was talking about when He said this.  These are the people who see only things of this world rather than the Kingdom of God that is all around them.  Picture right now what it would be like to sit down with the Creator of the Universe to warm bread and wine and have Him speak into your life.

Look how many times Jesus uses "bread" in this passage: 
"I am the bread of life. Your forefathers ate the manna in the desert, yet they died. But here is the bread that comes down from heaven, which a man may eat and not die. I am the living bread that came down from heaven. 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 6:48-51


The next time you have a sandwich, burger, toast, bread or for that matter anything else to eat, think about the Kingdom of Heaven and the offer that Jesus gives out to everyone.  Though He has a gift prepared for each person on the face of the planet; some have not heard yet; some have heard and not accepted; others take the Bread of life and shall never go hungry.