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"I am the bread of life;
whoever comes to me will never hunger,
and whoever believes in me will never thirst."
Yesterday we discussed about working for food that endures forever as we begun our Gospel reading on the Bread of Life. Today we continue with the Bread of Life discussion with the Lord Jesus Christ telling us that we will never hunger or thirst anymore if we come to and believe in Him. About this we touched a bit last Thursday when we discussed about the Lord Jesus Christ as the only way to salvation.
Bread satisfies hunger; water quenches thirst. But when the hunger is not physical or the thirst is for something beyond material, we also need food and drink that is more than corporeal. When Jesus our Lord said that anyone who comes to Him will never hunger anymore or whoever believes in Him will thirst no more, He was not referring to physical hunger or thirst, but the hunger and thirst that make us desire for things that will satisfy the moral and spiritual spheres of our lives. Many of us might and would even deny that we really aspire for something spiritual when we seek for things that will fill the hunger and quench the thirst that we feel beyond that which could be provided by food and water, but the fact that ordinary food and drink cannot fully satisfy us and that we still seek for more in life, would ultimately lead us to the One that shall end all our longings, desires and aspirations: God.
For when God created us He made us into His image and likeness and being part and parcel of being created in His image and likeness is having the desire for ultimate happiness. God's expression of His happiness was to share such happiness with His creatures, especially humans. He also infused in us the desire for happiness so that we may find our way back to Him. For however we seek for true happiness in the many things in this world, we shall not find it for only in God can we be truly happy forever.
In order for us to find the right path toward the true happiness, and ultimately to Him, God sent His only-begotten Son, our Lord Jesus Christ: the Way, the Truth and the Life and the only mediator between God and man, being both God and man, the bridge between eternity and temporality; between the divine and the human, the spiritual and the corporeal. In order to fulfill this role, the Lord made himself eternally available as the Bread of Life, through the Holy Eucharist. And by partaking of this Bread we shall live forever and be eternally filled never to be hungry nor be thirsty anymore. While on pilgrimage upon this earth, we shall be hungry for food and thirsty for drink, but never be unsatisfied with regards to things heavenly and when the appointed time comes, we shall never go hungry or thirsty again even for earthly food or drink for our bodies shall have been transformed into the same glorious body of the resurrected Christ.
Let the Bread of Life fill us each day of our lives through the Eucharist, the Word of God, and the love of God and for each other. By so doing, even our need for earthly food and drink will always be provided by the Father. No one will ever be hungry or thirsty anymore if we truly surrender to the Lord Jesus Christ who has fed thousands from just two pieces of fish and five loaves of bread and has given Himself to us as real heavenly food through the Holy Eucharist.
Bread satisfies hunger; water quenches thirst. But when the hunger is not physical or the thirst is for something beyond material, we also need food and drink that is more than corporeal. When Jesus our Lord said that anyone who comes to Him will never hunger anymore or whoever believes in Him will thirst no more, He was not referring to physical hunger or thirst, but the hunger and thirst that make us desire for things that will satisfy the moral and spiritual spheres of our lives. Many of us might and would even deny that we really aspire for something spiritual when we seek for things that will fill the hunger and quench the thirst that we feel beyond that which could be provided by food and water, but the fact that ordinary food and drink cannot fully satisfy us and that we still seek for more in life, would ultimately lead us to the One that shall end all our longings, desires and aspirations: God.
For when God created us He made us into His image and likeness and being part and parcel of being created in His image and likeness is having the desire for ultimate happiness. God's expression of His happiness was to share such happiness with His creatures, especially humans. He also infused in us the desire for happiness so that we may find our way back to Him. For however we seek for true happiness in the many things in this world, we shall not find it for only in God can we be truly happy forever.
In order for us to find the right path toward the true happiness, and ultimately to Him, God sent His only-begotten Son, our Lord Jesus Christ: the Way, the Truth and the Life and the only mediator between God and man, being both God and man, the bridge between eternity and temporality; between the divine and the human, the spiritual and the corporeal. In order to fulfill this role, the Lord made himself eternally available as the Bread of Life, through the Holy Eucharist. And by partaking of this Bread we shall live forever and be eternally filled never to be hungry nor be thirsty anymore. While on pilgrimage upon this earth, we shall be hungry for food and thirsty for drink, but never be unsatisfied with regards to things heavenly and when the appointed time comes, we shall never go hungry or thirsty again even for earthly food or drink for our bodies shall have been transformed into the same glorious body of the resurrected Christ.
Let the Bread of Life fill us each day of our lives through the Eucharist, the Word of God, and the love of God and for each other. By so doing, even our need for earthly food and drink will always be provided by the Father. No one will ever be hungry or thirsty anymore if we truly surrender to the Lord Jesus Christ who has fed thousands from just two pieces of fish and five loaves of bread and has given Himself to us as real heavenly food through the Holy Eucharist.
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