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“Then Jesus declared, ‘I am the bread of life.  Whoever comes to me will never go hungry, and whoever believes in me will never be thirsty.'”  (John 6:35, NIV)

Whether in the physical sphere — or in the spiritual sphere — hunger and thirst are normal.  We feel the pangs of hunger and the dryness of thirst in reaction to need.

The challenge for all of humanity is to properly satisfy this need — whether physical or spiritual.

Only Jesus permanently satisfies the hunger of the human spirit.  Only Jesus permanently satisfies the thirst of the human soul.  The other things and people we rely on to meet our spiritual needs are only temporary and a diversion when time is critically short.

As disciples of Jesus, we must guard against the temptation to consider anything other than God’s provision to satisfy any spiritual need.  God has given us His only begotten Son — Jesus.  He is the bread of life.  He is the living water.  – Luther

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“’My food,’ said Jesus, ‘is to do the will of him who sent me and to finish his work.'”  (John 4:34, NIV)

As we’ve been told before: We need to be careful of what we eat.  Over time, what we consume eventually consumes us.

Jesus said that His “food” was: (1) To do the will of His Father and; (2) To finish His work.

What is it that energizes you?  What is it that were you to have to do without, you would die?  By definition, this is our “food.”

As followers of Jesus, we should have the exact same motivation that He did.  To require anything else assures spiritual malnutrition and the risk of being consumed by unworthy ambitions.

In Matthew 6:33, Jesus tells us to “seek first the kingdom of God and His righteousness, and all these [other] things [we so eagerly seek, including literal food] will be added [provided] to us.” (Note: Bracketed words are my amplifications.)  – Luther

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“I have chosen you.”  (John 15:16a, KJV )

Today, a reminder from Oswald Chambers’ devotional, “My Utmost for His Highest”: “Keep that note of greatness in your creed. It is not that you have got God, but that He has got you.”   – Luther

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