Dear Editor,
There are some people who will tell you that they do not eat stale bread – bread just one day old on the supermarket shelf. I wonder how many of these same people who, in the midst of the passing pandemic, are gracious enough to thank God for bread that may be two days or perhaps one week or two weeks old in their freezers.
This bread about which I write will be eaten and, after it has run its intestinal course, will be emitted into the toilet bowl. But there is bread – a bread divine in character and epiphany – that will never become stale and will last forever. It is the Bread of Life: Jesus, son of the one, true and living God.
Every day Jesus declares at John 6:35 of the Holy Bible to all nations: “I am the bread of life.” He echoes this divine statement with another more expansive one about who he is at John 6:51 “I am the living bread which has come down from heaven. Anyone who eats this bread will live forever and the bread that I shall give is my flesh for the life of the world.”
There are some of us throughout the world who listen to these words of Jesus and accept them in humility and trust in His Lordship. Unfortunately, there are others who fail both to hear and listen to Jesus. As a born-again Christian – snatched from the tentacles of sin and death – I wish to encourage everyone to recognise that no matter what we think of Jesus we cannot change who he is.
Regardless of our learning, logic and scientific reasoning, we cannot change the truth that he died for all of us sinners and rose triumphantly on Easter morning. Regardless of our disregard of him in favour of other deities, we cannot change the truth that he lives and continues to perform miracles of healing, deliverance, provision, conversion, transformation, power and authority over natural phenomena.
Jesus is the bread we all need for perpetual life. Born 2020 years ago, He is still as fresh as the morning breeze, the rising sun, the bright morning star, the lily of the valley, the Rose of Sharon, dawn of justice. He is the eternal father, mighty God, prince of peace, wonder counsellor, model of obedience, treasure of the faithful, author of life, crown of all saints and more….
If you are looking for always-fresh-bread, seek Jesus and he will let you find him waiting for you with loving arms. He will allow you to consume of him and from him as would satisfy you. You will never grow hungry with him as your daily bread. The more you enter intimacy with him, the more he will use you as a vessel of his love to draw souls to him and the Kingdom of Heaven.
Sincerely,
Rommel
