Money is
tight when you’re a college student. So when free food is available, students
will show up anytime, anywhere. If a company wants to recruit new employees, it
will entice young people on college campuses to come to a presentation by
offering free pizza. Some students attend presentation after presentation—just
for the pizza. The food in the present seems to be more important than the job
for the future.
Jesus fed
a crowd of 5,000, and the next day many searched for Him (John 6:10-11,24-25). He
challenged them: “You seek Me, not because you saw the signs, but because you
ate of the loaves and were filled” (v.26). It seems that the food was more
important to some of the people than the everlasting life Jesus offered in
Himself. He told them He was “the bread of God . . . who comes down from heaven
and gives life to the world” (v.33). Some didn’t believe, wouldn’t accept His
teaching, and “walked with Him no more” (v.66). They had wanted the food, but
they didn’t want Him and what would be required of them to follow Him.
Jesus
calls us today to come to Him—not for the blessings from His hand but to
receive the eternal life He offers and to follow Him, “the bread of God.”
Only God can
satisfy our spiritual hunger. (RBC)
