Sermon Recap

This week, Pastor Suzy continued our “Come to Me” series by exploring what it means that Jesus is the bread of life. She began the teaching by first challenging us to consider what is really satisfying us right now. Maybe it’s our kids, our work, or a new relationship, but underneath it all, these things fade and there remains a deeper longing in the human heart that nothing in this world can satisfy. Ecclesiastes calls it “vanity of vanities,” that sense that everything apart from God is ultimately empty. The series has been exploring the “I Am” statements, and in John 6, Jesus makes an incredible claim: “I am the Bread of life.” Just as God provided manna through Moses in the wilderness, Jesus is saying that he himself is the true bread from heaven who can meet our deepest hungers.

Pastor Suzy talked about four movements in our relationship with Jesus that can posture ourselves to receive Jesus as the bread of life: invitation, dependence, communion, and feasting. Like the Israelites collecting manna each morning, we need to keep coming back to Jesus. The challenge is that when life is going pretty well, we start turning to all the other things, going back to what we used to do, to what the world tells us we need. When we don't go to God for bread, we're starving our souls.

The invitation for us is to see our longings not as problems to solve, but as a hunger that points us toward God. Jesus doesn't just want to sustain us; he wants to be with us. He invites us to feast, to run into his presence rather than away from it. Our unfulfilled desires aren't a sign that something's wrong, they’re meant to create a hunger for the one who made us. Jesus has come to meet these desires, and He's inviting us to come to Him daily.