“The One Who
Believes
Has Eternal Life”
They said, “Is this not Jesus, the son of Joseph, whose father and
mother we know? How can he now say, ‘I came down from heaven’?”
“Stop grumbling among yourselves,” Jesus answered. “No
one can come to me unless the Father who sent me draws them, and I will raise
them up at the last day. It
is written in the Prophets: ‘They will all be taught by God.’ Everyone who has
heard the Father and learned from him comes to me. No one has seen the Father except the one who
is from God; only he has seen the Father. Very truly I tell you, the one who believes has eternal life. I am the bread of life. Your ancestors
ate the manna in the wilderness, yet they died. But
here is the bread that comes down from heaven, which anyone may eat and not die.
I am the living bread that came down from
heaven. Whoever eats this bread will live forever. This bread is my flesh,
which I will give for the life of the world.”
Matthew 9:35-38
There
are people today who travel great distances to tell the story of Jesus Christ.
Think
of your own reluctance to drive across town in the snow to visit a lonely
widower; to walk across the street to help a neighbor; to answer a knock on the
door from a needy friend; to go any place, any time, any place for the sake of
love. Our Lord died for us. Distance did not matter then and it should not
matter now.
What God gave to us, He wants us to share.
Our Daily Bread –