THE BREAD OF LIFE

Jesus said to them, “I am the bread of life. He who comes to Me will never hunger,

and he who believes in Me will never thirst. 

John 6:35

Sadhu Sundac Singh was distributing Gospels in the Central Province of India. He came to some non-Christians on the train and offered a man a copy of John’s Gospel. The man took it, tore it into pieces in anger and threw the pieces out of the window. That seemed the end. But it so happened, in the providence of God, there was a man anxiously seeking for truth walking along the train line that very day. As he walked along he picked up a little bit of paper and looked at it, and the words on it in his own language were “The Bread of Life.”

He did not know what it meant; but he inquired among his friends and one of them said, “I can tell you; it is out of the Christian book. You must not read it or you will be defiled.” The man thought for a moment and then said, “I want to read the book that contains that beautiful phrase!” and he bought a copy of the New Testament. He was shown where the sentence occurred—our Lord’s words “I am the Bread of Life”; and as he studied the Gospel, the light flooded into his heart. He came to the knowledge of Jesus Christ, and he became a preacher of the gospel. That little bit of paper through God’s Spirit was indeed the Bread of Life to him, satisfying his deepest need. 

Jesus said, “All that the Father gives Me will come to Me, and the one who comes to Me I will never cast out. For this is the will of My Father, that everyone who sees the Son and believes in Him will have eternal life, and I Myself will raise him up on the last day” (John 6:37, 40).

Ike Graham