“Jesus Christ Is The Bread Of Life!”

“Jesus Christ Is The Bread Of Life!”
I remember one of those seeming tough questions in the days of our youth. “Do we live to eat or we eat to live?” Of course, we eat to live. Life is not about food, but life without food will be short-lived. Jesus considered food to be important that is why he said “Man does not live on bread alone, but on every word that comes from the mouth of God” (Mt.4:4).
God may cause you to go hungry so as to test your heart and to humble you so that you should know that man does not live on bread alone (Deut.8:2-3).
Yesterday I attended a Christian funeral in the village. After the burial people sat here and there. Food and drinks were in abundance. As the sharing and eating was going on, I said to myself, “O, see how food and drinks can bring about social cohesion!” Food is important to keep body and soul together, beyond that, it binds people together in love.
The people who eat together easily share common interests. More than that, food seals a religious covenant. When God confirmed the covenant with Israel through Moses and co, these people “saw God, and they ate and drank” (Ex.4:9-11). This covenant meal celebrating the sealing of the covenant foreshadowed the Lord’s Supper which celebrates the new covenant sealed with the blood of Christ.
Jesus demonstrated that man does not live on bread alone when he fed five thousand people with “five small barley loaves and two small fish.” In the hands of Jesus small became much through divine touch (Jn.6:1-15).
What characterized the gatherings of the early Christians were: devotion to the teaching of the apostles, fellowship, breaking of bread and prayer.
They met in the temple everyday. The fellowship was consolidated as “they broke bread in their homes and ate together with glad and sincere hearts, praising God and enjoying the favor of all the people.” Who would not hunger for that “old time religion!”
The simplicity of all of them placed everybody on a common level, void of class. They were all together “and had everything in common.” The manner of sharing was from each according to his means and to each according to his needs.
The result of this fellowship of sharing was a boom in numerical growth of those who were saved daily (Acts 2:42-47).
Summary: Spiritual food is complemented by physical food. This is how the first Lord’s Supper was being celebrated. For all to enjoy both each should bring to the fellowship according to his means and the fellowship should give to each according to his needs. The ministers should give their time to teaching. Prayer and praise to God should be ours during fellowships.
Sunday prayer: Lord help me to bring to the fellowship according to my means and be given according to my needs. Amen!
Have a blessed Sunday! Peace be with you!