Jesus Satisfies

John chapter Viagra reviews 6 opens Paroxetine side effects with the What is paroxetine scene of Lamictal 200mg - 90 pills Jesus feeding at least five thousand people with only five loaves of bread and two fish.  A powerful scene to say the least.  Miraculous.  Awe inspiring.  The crowd that He fed was instantly enamored with Jesus.  He had done a miracle and created bread.  And not just enough, but more than enough.  Everyone was satisfied.  The crowd had heard of Jesus’ miracles and they had just experienced one.  So they followed Him.  Wouldn’t you?

As the scene progresses though we begin to see that Jesus doesn’t just mean to provide physical bread to these people.  He wants to be their bread.  He doesn’t just want to be their miracle worker.  He wants to be their miracle.

In verse 35 Jesus says that he is the bread of life.  Whoever comes to Him will not hunger or thirst.  But even as he draws this parallel to himself and the bread he provided to them, they begin to grumble.  They don’t get it.  They want miracles of physical food but Jesus is trying to show them that they need the miracle of the all satisfying spiritual bread.  They need Him.  But they are seeking their satisfaction in the gifts and not the giver.

So I pose a question to you and me:  what is our bread?  What are the things we seek satisfaction in?  Christ wants to be our all satisfying bread but we tend to make bread out of so many other things.  I do this with things like my wife, my books, my gadgets.  I try to find my satisfaction in these things when they should be pointing me to Christ.

How often do put down my Bible to pick up a book?  How often do I worry about my wife’s happiness when, as a believing husband, I am tasked with her holiness (washing her with the Word)?  How many times to I elevate my comfort above spreading the good news of Jesus Christ? I can’t even count how many times I have sought my satisfaction in other things besides Christ; in the gifts He has given me.  I am sure you can say the same thing.

This should not be.  Jesus wants to be your all sufficient bread.  But we can’t be like the people in the Bible who only wanted signs and wonders.  Jesus didn’t come to satisfy the appetites you had before you were redeemed.  He came to give you new appetites to satisfy that only he can.  He didn’t come to give us the treasures that we crave.  He came to give us a new treasure: Himself.  The all satisfying treasure that will be enough no matter what.

When everything else fails He is your feast.  But perhaps that is one of the great struggles living in an opulent society.  There are very few times when we face such great need.  Life, then, is not our struggle, but making Christ our bread and our treasure even when we have so many things around us that advertise that they can satisfy.

You know that longing for something new you get after you have purchased or received something and the “new” has worn off?  It is a longing to satisfy yourself with something.  But the truth is (and we know it) that nothing we get will permanently fulfill that longing.  Only Christ can.  Make him your bread and your treasure and you won’t be disappointed.  Let Jesus Christ satisfy your every need.

Brian