Good Morning,
Praise the Lord for this new day. As we stand before the Lord we recognize that we are needy people. We are thirsty and we are hungry. The good news that Christ offers to us is that He can satisfy all our deepest needs. Somebody aptly stated that, " There is a hunger for truth and JESUS IS THE TRUTH, the answer to all of life's questions. There is a hunger for life and JESUS ALONE CAN GIVE MEN LIFE, abundant, eternal life. There is a hunger for love and JESUS ALONE CAN GIVE US THAT LOVE THAT OUTLASTS EVEN DEATH."
As we grow older we very quickly discover that the pleasures of this world are temporary and fading. Only a relationship with Jesus can satisfy the immortal longings and the insatiable hunger of the human heart and soul. As St. Augustine prayed, "Thou hast made us for Thyself and our hearts are restless without Thee." Only in Jesus do we find food for our souls. The food that He offers is so satisfying that, as He says in John 6:35, those who come to Him will never go hungry, and never be thirsty. The Greek here is very emphatic, and Jesus actually says, "whoever comes to ME (and no one else) will never be hungry or thirsty". He alone can satisfy our spiritual hunger for He alone is the BREAD OF LIFE...
In his best selling book called, “Into Thin Air,” Jon Krakauer relates the hazards that plagued some climbers as they attempted to reach the summit of Mount Everest. Andy Harris, one of the expedition leaders stayed at the peak too long and on his descent, he began to be in dire need of oxygen. Harris radioed the base camp and told them about his predicament. He mentioned that he had come across a cache of oxygen canisters left by the other climbers but they were all empty. The climbers who already passed the canisters on their own descent knew they were not empty, but full. They pleaded with him on the radio to make use of them but it was to no avail. Harris was starved for oxygen but he continued to argue that the canisters were empty.
The problem was that the lack of what he needed had so disoriented his mind that, though he was surrounded by something that would give him life, he continued to complain of its absence. You might say that the very thing he held in his hand was absent in his brain. The lack of oxygen had ravaged his capacity to recognize what was right in front of him. What oxygen is to the body the Bread of Life is to the soul. Many of us are suffocating and starving and we don’t even know it. We think we have Jesus figured out but we might be way off. Jesus is offering life to us while we run around trying to appease our appetites.
Give us this day our daily bread…give us Jesus, as we give ourselves to him.
In Him,
Brown
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IfVmsZNBKR8
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