VISITING TEACHING MESSAGE
The Divine Mission of Jesus Christ:
Bread of Life
This is part of a series of Visiting Teaching Messages featuring
aspects of the mission of the Savior.
Detail from In Remberance of Me, by Walter Rane
Jesus said, “I am the living bread which came down from heaven:
if any man eat of this bread, he shall live forever” (John 6:51). “Jesus teaches us, His
disciples, that we should look to God each day for the bread—the help and
sustenance—we require in that particular day,” said Elder D. Todd Christofferson of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles.
“The Lord’s invitation … speaks of a loving God, aware of even the small, daily
needs of His children and eager to assist them, one by one. He is saying that
we can ask in faith of that Being ‘that giveth to all men liberally, and
upbraideth not; and it shall be given’ (James 1:5).”1 As we understand that Jesus Christ
will provide for our needs, we will turn to Him for our spiritual sustenance.
Elder Jeffrey R. Holland of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles
invites us “to join in the adventure of the earliest disciples of Christ who
also yearned for the bread of life—those who did not go
back but who came to Him, stayed with Him, and who recognized that for safety
and salvation there was no other to whom they could ever go.”2
Additional
Scriptures
From the
Scriptures
Jesus Christ was teaching a multitude of more than 4,000 people.
After three days, He said to His disciples: “I have compassion on the multitude,
because they have … nothing to eat:
“And if I send them away fasting to their own houses, they will
faint by the way. …
“And his disciples answered him, From whence can a man satisfy
these men with bread here in the wilderness?
“And [Jesus] asked them, How many loaves have ye? And they said,
Seven.”
Then Christ “took the seven loaves, and gave thanks, and brake,
and gave to his disciples to set before them; …
“And they had a few small fishes: and he blessed, and commanded
to set them also before them.
“So they did eat, and were filled: and they took up of the
broken meat that was left seven baskets.” (See Mark 8:1–9.)
Consider
This
When we come unto Christ, how does He nourish us?
“Living Bread”
cji
10/01/14
Within in me to grow
testimony – a witness
learning to know more
of my brother/Savior
allowing me to cleanse
becoming a conduit
growing from within
example from without
with His living bread
kneading me as one!
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