“I am the living bread that came down from heaven. Whoever eats this bread will live forever. This bread is my flesh, which I will give for the life of the world.”
John 6:51 NIV
This verse encapsulates what and who Jesus was. He was God, He came down from heaven to live among men for 33 years. 30 of those years were in obscurity to men. Three of those years turned the religious world upside down.
Jesus calls Himself living bread. Just as we eat food everyday, He invites us to eat of Him, all that He represented. He then tells us, “whoever eats of this bread will live forever”. Then He explains that ‘this’ bread is His flesh, which He would give ‘for the life of the world’. Jesus was about to be crucified for all mankind for all eternity. He was the perfect sacrifice, pure and undefined. His sacrifice freed us from the power and defilement of sin.
Today, if we turn to Him and lay down our pride, ask for forgiveness and invite Him in, He sets us free from all darkness and gives us joy unimaginable.
You cannot save yourself, that is why Jesus came. Your own goodness is not enough. Paul the apostles says it like this:’none is good, no not one’.Romans 3:10
“For everyone has sinned; we all fall short of God’s glorious standard. Yet God, in his grace, freely makes us right in his sight. He did this through Christ Jesus when he freed us from the penalty for our sins. For God presented Jesus as the sacrifice for sin. People are made right with God when they believe that Jesus sacrificed his life, shedding his blood. This sacrifice shows that God was being fair when he held back and did not punish those who sinned in times past,”
Romans 3:23-25 NLT
There is only one way, and that way is Jesus! Amen!
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