# 123 Ever Fresh Bread

 

Ever Fresh Bread

 

Joh 6:47 "Most assuredly, I say to you, he who believes in Me has everlasting life. 48 "I am the bread of life. 49 "Your fathers ate the manna in the wilderness, and are dead. 50 "This is the bread which comes down from heaven, that one may eat of it and not die.

 Jesus keeps hammering away at the theme, “I am the Bread of Life. “He who believes in Me has everlasting life.” The Bread that He speaks of is His Body and it is not like the manna that was eaten in the wilderness. That manna was a physical sustenance only. the manna of Jesus is of spiritual sustenance.

 

The shelf life of manna was one day! Moses told the people when they gathered the manna that they were not to keep any of it until morning. However, some of them paid no attention to Moses and they kept it anyway. What a surprise the next day when the bread box stunk to high heaven and was full of maggots! Ex 16:19 And Moses said, "Let no one leave any of it till morning." 20 Notwithstanding they did not heed Moses. But some of them left part of it until morning, and it bred worms and stank. And Moses was angry with them.

 

Not so with the bread that Jesus gives. His is the living bread that came down from heaven. If anyone, by faith, partakes of His bread, he will live forever! The bread that Jesus gives is His very flesh which He gave for the life of the world. It is His literal body which He willingly placed on the cross at Calvary. A body which He knew would not suffer corruption. (Read that maggots!)

 

As the Psalmist foretold in  Ps 16:9,10, Therefore my heart is glad, and my glory rejoices; My flesh also will rest in hope. 10 For You will not leave my soul in Sheol, Nor will You allow Your Holy One to see corruption.

 

No maggots in this bread! No stench from this manna! It is ever fresh, ever living. Though we may die and our flesh turns to dust, those who believe in Christ and have received Him as Lord and Savior will one day rise from the dead.

In accordance with  1Co 15:52,53 one day the buzzer on the oven we call life will go off and, “in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trumpet. For the trumpet will sound, and the dead will be raised incorruptible, and we shall be changed.” 53 For this corruptible must put on incorruption, and this mortal must put on immortality.”

 

No worms! No maggots! No stench in those imperishable bodies because they have partaken of the Living Bread! They have believed in, and received the Lord Jesus Christ!