A sower went out to sow....

It is not enough to be satisfied once (that is our common experience). We want to be satisfied forever. Having food for today teaches us to expect food tomorrow. We need food that lasts forever.

Having been satisfied once, the people long to be satisfied forever. Logic told them that to enjoy a steady supply of food; they should have their hands on the supplier himself. God is the Unsupplied Supplier of all good things – satisfying food and whatnot.

Jesus taught His listeners today not only that God is the source of the kind of satisfaction they yearn for but also that He Himself, the Son of God, is the very satisfaction of all their yearnings. Manna tastes less satisfying than Jesus Himself who is the Bread of Life.

In life, there is a hierarchy of values. We must learn to rank every need correctly. Our need for Jesus infinitely outranks all our other needs. In fact, our longing for Jesus guides every effort we exercise to satisfy any need we have in life. All satisfaction we work for should actually lead us to our ultimate satisfaction: fullness of life in and through Jesus.

Jesus is the Bread of Life. We are not truly satisfied until we taste Him. And when we have tasted Him all else is junk food. “But whatever gain I had, I counted as loss for the sake of Christ. Indeed, I count everything as loss because of the surpassing worth of knowing Christ Jesus my Lord. For his sake I have suffered the loss of all things and count them as rubbish, in order that I may gain Christ,” (Phil 3:7-9).