Hannah Putnam – I Am: The Bread of Life – John 6:35

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“Jesus said to them, ‘I am the bread of life; whoever comes to me shall not hunger, and whoever believes in me shall never thirst.’” (John 6:35)

Last Sunday we started our series on the I am statements of Jesus by looking at John 6:35 where Jesus says ‘I am the bread of life’.

We all get a stomach hunger when we haven’t eaten, and we need food to fill that. But the Bible tells us that we also all have a life hunger – a hunger for meaning, for peace and for love. This hunger for real life, the life God gives, cannot be filled with things, which is so often where we automatically turn. Jesus here is saying that it doesn’t matter what stuff we have or how successful our lives look because it is only Jesus who can fill our life hunger.

The challenge here is 2-fold – first of all we are called to come to Jesus in the good and the bad times and commit to work through life with Him. Secondly we are called to believe in Jesus. It’s by doing this we get to experience life to the fullest.