Do you take Jesus’ words literally? Or do you recognize some of His teachings as being metaphors? Do you apply His parables and metaphors to your life? How do you use them to identify a truth of God you can use each day?
There are times Jesus speaks very plainly. He means what His words literally mean. At other times, He speaks in parables or metaphors. He uses something we know to teach us God’s truth. We are to recognize them for what they are and seek to understand the truth of His words.
Today’s passage is a metaphor. Jesus does not literally mean that He will feed us and give us something to drink. Will He provide? Yes! He provides in more ways than we can count. He even provides us with food and drink. Just not in a literal sense, since He is not standing beside us and handing it over.
More importantly, today’s passage is speaking to spiritual truth. If we hunger to know God’s truth, He will fill us. If we thirst to know the meaning of God’s Word, He will satisfy us. It is not a question of whether Jesus can provide, but a question of whether we are truly seeking.
Far too often, we seek to find passages in Scripture to support our viewpoint rather than seeking to know God’s truth. Jesus is speaking to us and telling He will provide the truth and the meaning of God’s Word, if we hunger and thirst for it.
I pray we all seek to know the truth of God’s Word. I pray we ask God to reveal his truth to us. I pray each one of us will hunger and thirst to understand God’s truth and the meaning of his Word. Know the truth. Ask God to reveal it to you. Hunger for God’s truth. Thirst for God’s truth.
John 6:35 Jesus said to them, “I am the bread of life. Whoever comes to me will never be hungry, and whoever believes in me will never be thirsty.”
Marty Pressey 