Today’s Daily Lesson comes from John 6 verses 53 through 58:
53So Jesus said to them, ‘Very truly, I tell you, unless you eat the flesh of the Son of Man and drink his blood, you have no life in you. 54Those who eat my flesh and drink my blood have eternal life, and I will raise them up on the last day; 55for my flesh is true food and my blood is true drink.56Those who eat my flesh and drink my blood abide in me, and I in them. 57Just as the living Father sent me, and I live because of the Father, so whoever eats me will live because of me. 58This is the bread that came down from heaven, not like that which your ancestors ate, and they died. But the one who eats this bread will live for ever.’
“God wants you to have this bread.”
These are the first words spoken at our weekly Agape meal, a sit-down, full-service, family-style meal, shared with the homeless every Thursday night.
The words as passed from person to person around the table along with the words: “God wants you to have this bread.”
The bread of life is gift. It is given as a sign of God’s grace. It is given as a sign of God’s love. The bread is ours to receive freely and to pass along.
There’s an old saying around the church that we’re all just beggars showing other beggars where to find bread. So we are. No one deserves the bread any more than anyone else. No one has earned it. It is the bread of heaven; and with it comes the cup of grace.
God wants us to have this bread. God wants us to take and bless it, break and give it. God wants us to have this bread and to share it with others.
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