Introduction

In 1990, while serving as the pastor of First Lutheran Church, Potter, Neb., and Grace Lutheran Church, Gurley, Neb., I prepared a series of six daily devotions, calling the collection “All Good Gifts: Devotions for the Harvest.” This is the sixth and last in the collection.

Reading: John 6:25-35

“Jesus said to them, ‘I am the bread of life. Whoever comes to me will never be hungry, and who believes in me will never be thirsty’” (v. 35).

Devotion

Every day we work and sweat to earn our daily bread. We eat and are satisfied…but only for a time. And then we must work and eat again. It is the same with our drink.

But there is one loaf which overcomes our hunger, and one person who slakes our thirst. He is Jesus Christ, the true bread from heaven.

When we share his Holy Meal, we eat from that loaf and drink from his cup. He knows our hunger for life and our thirst for salvation, and so he gives us his own body and blood to eat and drink, saying, “Given and shed for you,” for life and for living.

Prayer

Living God, give us a share in the life fed and nourished by the true bread from heaven, your Son, Jesus Christ, so we may no longer hunger and thirst; in his name we pray. Amen.

Ut in Omnibus Glorificetur Deus