John 6

Hi everyone! I hope your day has been as awesome as mine! I really am enjoying out Bible atudy. I'm also beginning a weightless journey during this time, so I feel like I am doing so much at one time! I'm making some major life changes. This past week has really been great though. I know God is working in my life. I feel like my thoughts are centered around God and his will for my life here lately. I am 27 years old and I have yet to figure out what my purpose is here on earth. I know it's to tell people about Jesus and I know it's to teach, but I feel like there is more that I should be doing. So I am praying for God to open those doors for me.
Now...on to chapter 6!

In verse 27, Jesus says, "Do not work for food that spoils but for food tha endures to eternal life." This is something that I am TERRIBLE about doing. Instead of searching for God, I search for other Worldly things to make myself happy. Those are empty feelings. They may satisfy me for the moment but they won't satisfy me for life. And they definitely won't save me from an eternity in Hell. It is up to me to keep up my relationship with God. He gives God gave us free will and he will not force himself on us. This means that we have to be spiritually mature and we have to seek God out at all times. God doesn't want us to seek him out only when we need something from him. He wants us to daily take up our cross and follow him. It is difficult. Not an easy task by any means, but it will be worth it in the end.

Verse 44 says, "No one can come to me unless the Father who sent me draws him.." This is speaking of salvation. g
God convicts us of living wrong. He draws us to him through Jesus Christ. There is nothing we can do to make this happen. The people in John 6 wanted him to perform miracles for them. They said they needed these miracles to believe in him. Obviously what he was saying and the previous miracles he had performed weren't enough for them. Jesus was right there in front of them and they still had issues believing in him.

Jesus also talks about eating the flesh of his flesh and drinking his blood. I think at this point these people were legit freaked out! If someone told me I had to drink and eat their blood and flesh I'd pass out! Jesus was really using an analogy between his body and blood and their bread and water. The bread and water provided sustenance for these people. It kept them alive. Jesus was making the point that physical life is nothing without eternal life added into it. He wanted them to accept him so that when physical death came, spiritual death wouldn't.

Then we get to probably one of the most famous stories in the Bible. The feeding of the 5,000(men-women and children weren't included in this number). The person who provided the food was a child. This was no coincidence. This goes back to my comment about having child-like faith. God knew that using a child would be the best way to go. Nobody would question him and it also showed society (then and now) how important children are to us. It Jesus used that child, then he will use anyone who is willing to give.

My last point Is that Jesus came to us as a carpenter. I think this is important because God commands us to go into all the nations. Baptizing people in his name. If he had come to us as a king who didnt associate with lower class, then we wouldn't have been able to relate to him. He wouldn't have had as many followers. He came to earth as a man so that we could use him as an example of how to live our lives. I hope this post has been a big help. Praying for you again. Sorry for the typos!