The human spirit is aware always of a certain dissatisfaction. You can have so much, attain so much, be adored by millions – yet still be empty. In Jesus’ day - following the feeding of the 5,000 – some of his listeners began impatiently to compare Him with Moses, through whom the miraculous feeding of the ‘manna’ had taken place out in the wilderness centuries earlier. ‘Can you give us a better sign than the manna?’ they were asking. ‘Can you match Moses?’ They were missing the point. Christ is, to the soul, what bread is to the body.
1. The bread of old could only satisfy a nation; Jesus has come to satisfy the world.
2. The bread of old could only satisfy the body; Jesus has come to satisfy the soul.
3. The bread of old could only satisfy for a period; Jesus has come to satisfy for ever.
Try and take it in! Sixteen centuries ago the great Christian leader Augustine, in the language of his time, declared, “Crede – et manducasti” – that is, “Believe – and you have eaten!” It is knowing Christ as the best Friend of our lives that is the most fulfilling thing of all. Fame can’t do it. Nor can Feasting. Nor can Fortune. Millions have proved this to be so, and continue to prove it to this day. Without Him emptiness beckons.
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