Gospel Connection
What do we need more than food? That’s a tough question because we all know we need food to live. When Satan tempted Jesus, he said, “If you are the Son of God, command these stones to become loaves of bread” (Matt. 4:3). That wouldn’t be a temptation if Jesus just ate from the all-you-can-eat fish and bread buffet near the Sea of Galilee. But that was not the case. He’d had no food for forty days. He was starving. Really starving! And because of that, the Snake Crusher’s answer to the serpent was surprising. He said, “Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that comes from the mouth of God” (Matt. 4:4). Another time in Jesus’s ministry (actually right after he fed these five thousand), he said something just as surprising. He said, “I am the bread of life; whoever comes to me shall not hunger, and whoever believes in me shall never thirst” (John 6:35). Wow, what a claim! Wow, what a wonderful promise. What do you think? Do you believe in Jesus? Have you come to him for everything you need, even eternal life?
