Jesus said, “I am the bread of life. Whoever comes to me will never be hungry, and whoever believes in me will never be thirsty.” (John 6:35)
It is God’s nature to love, to give himself, to bestow and to share. When he calls himself the true bread in the Gospel, the comparison is therefore entirely fitting.
It is the nature of bread to be food, to give strength and sustain life. Without bread—if, like Luther, we use the word to signify everything necessary for life—a person perishes. And so it is without God.
Christ does not say that his teaching is the bread of life, but that he himself is the bread of life. Thus he feeds his people not only with ideas, but with himself.
Come and receive Jesus at church today at 10:00—or at the Finnish-language Mass at 12:30!
