1. I am the Bread of Life
Jesus said to them, “I am the bread of life; he who comes to me shall not hunger, and he who believes in me shall never thirst.” Jn 6:35
It is certainly a struggle to make sense of these sayings with our 21st Century mind. We might even wonder why we would bother. When I spent every week for nine months writing about these sayings I was astounded to discover that they were a guide to freeing our mind from the decayed thinking of our 21st Century.
Jesus is saying that the I AM ego eimi is the bread, the substance of life, zoe. When we find the word zoe in the bible it is pointing to our spiritual life. Other words for life are bios which is physical life and psuche which is soul life. This life is actually a life force and if this force leaves us we die and shrivel up. If you have ever looked at someone who has died you see how much they shrivel up. So we could also say that this life force has raising properties, just like bread rises when it is baked.
We actually need to work on these three levels of life in our being to give them more life otherwise we will use up our life force; we could compare it to refuelling. The thing that gives them life is when we become consciously aware of our higher self, our I AM, ego eimi. In the bible we can say that Jesus represents the I AM, he is the one who worked and worked to become fully conscious and aware of truth. This is why he got the starring role in the story of Christ.
So what work do we need to do? Jesus says that we need to come and believe. ‘Coming’, motion, movement speaks of the work of our I AM in our astral body – that part of our being where motion, emotion and consciousness is centred. ‘Believe’ is about knowing, knowledge, thinking (not blind belief) is to do with the work of our I AM in our etheric body – the centre of our life force which is connected to our organs that alert us to hunger and thirst. It really is amazing how a simple passage in the bible comes alive when these principles are applied to it.
When we look at stories like this and peel away the religious connotations we can read the map for the journey of our daily life. We know that we must continue to move forward to “come to our I AM” and we must also think vigorously about what things really mean so that we truly believe, ie we know.
Yet this is often not the case as we must admit. We like to take quite a few rests on our journey, as well as little detours that distract us from experiencing our I AM. And thinking is pretty tiring too. The thing is that we get tired because we are so focussed on hackneyed physical explanations, if we can drop this heavy baggage our journey will be so much easier. In fact, there is always a point at which we can feel as if we were being assisted in our coming and our knowing – that is the moment when we connect with our I AM.
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What is required in order to have Jesus ABIDE in us and we in Him?Can we do it:1. By accepting Him as our our own personal Lord and Savior ? No. Where does the Bible say that?2. By the grace of GOD only? Sola Gracias? No. Where does the Bible say that?3. By faith in GOD alone? Sola Fides? No. Where does the Bible say that?It is simple common sense that since He commanded that we must do something, then doesn’t it stand to reason that He would also tell us how to do it? Jesus was very clear in what we must do in order to have Him ABIDE in us and we in Him.Jesus left this command for us in John 6:53-57:53 “Truly, truly, I say to you, unless you eat the flesh of the Son of man and drink his blood, you have no life in you (the taken away branch); 54 he who eats my flesh and drinks my blood has eternal life, and I will raise him up at the last day. 55 For my flesh is food indeed, and my blood is drink indeed. 56 HE WHO EATS MY FLESH AND DRINKS MY BLOOD ABIDES IN ME, AND I IN HIM. 57 As the living Father sent me, and I live because of the Father, so he who eats me will live because of me.”