It seems it’s just human nature to always want more. No matter how much we have or how much we have been given, we always want more.
In last Sunday’s gospel Jesus feeds 5,000 people with a little bread and fish. We are told that they all were full. Now in this week’s gospel which is really a continuation of last Sunday’s reading, we find many of the people who were fed following Jesus through the countryside looking for him to preform another act of power. Simply put, they want more.
We are left wondering as we read the gospel if the people want more food, or if they want more of Jesus. Jesus answers their request and gives then both! Jesus explains that he is the bread which comes from heaven to give life to all. Jesus feeds all who look to him with bread, but that bread is the very bread of life.
This is the mystery of God’s ability to give God’s own self to us, and of the bread of heaven which feeds all who are hungry. In the words of the beautiful hymn: “come let us eat for now the feast is spread.”
Thanks be to God.
Pastor Bill