Sharing Love From Sweden - THE BREAD OF LIFE IN THE CENTER by Eva Haglund

THE  BREAD OF LIFE IN THE CENTER

by Eva Haglund

We need bread to live. In Matt 6:11 we find the prayer "Give us today our daily bread" as Jesus taught us. Many people are poor and do not have bread. It is good to help others in need who are poor. However there were people who followed Jesus who were just interested in the usual bread, but Jesus told them “Most assuredly ,I say to you, you seek Me, not because you saw the signs, but because you saw the loaves and were filled. Do not labor for the  the food which perishes but for the food which endures to everlasting life, which the Son of Man will give you, because God the Father has set His seal on Him.”  

 

Jesus as the Bread came to the House of Bread – Bethlehem. Usual bread and other things are not more important than this  Bread – Jesus. God ought to be in center in our lives. Among Christians, biblical subjects can get much attention but Jesus ought to be center. There are popular subjects, for instance the rapture, but these subjects must not take first place. Visions or activities in church also must not take first place. Hobbies can take  too much time,too, even  though there is not wrong with hobbies.

Sometimes people are so busy helping others that they forget to take time with their relation with God. It is good to help others in a time of much selfishness and lack of love. That is very good. The Bible also tell us in Matt 24:12, “because of lawlessness will abound, the love of many will grow cold.” The relation with Jesus ought to be first. 

We as human beings need spiritual bread.  In John 6:35 he tell us “I am the Bread of life. He who comes to Me shall never hunger, and he who believe in Me shall never thirst.”

We need to be dependent on Jesus as children are of their parents. We NEED Him. TV and media must not take too much time so we do not have time with our relationship with God. Because Jesus is the Bread and He is the Word, as it is written in John, then I see it as the Bible, the Word also is our Bread of life. The Bible is as Bread and we need our daily Bread. It is good to read the Bible every day. It is like Bread for our souls.

In Matt. 5:3 Jesus says, “Blessed are the poor in spirit.” We need to hunger for more of God, not thinking that we have  so much, but be humble and think we do not have so much  and be  hungry and want MORE of God. We can be longing for more to learn to know Him as a person, to get more of Him and of His power. Worship is important because then we lift up God and let Him be in the center. Worship brings the presence of God.

 

In the world people can be hungry, longing for something more. Jesus is the heavenly Bread. In John 6:33 is written: “For the bread of God is He who comes down from heaven and gives life to the world.”  In a world where many difficult things happen around us we  need to seek Jesus and have Him as our Friend.

Jesus/Yeshua  is a refuge in the storm and He is wonderful Bread.  Let us be hungry for this Bread! Let us be hungry for God!