WORD OF GOD - JOHN 6:5-15

John 6:5-15

When he looked up and saw a large crowd coming towards him, Jesus said to Philip, ‘Where are we to buy bread for these people to eat?’ He said this to test him, for he himself knew what he was going to do. Philip answered him, ‘Six months’ wages would not buy enough bread for each of them to get a little.’ One of his disciples, Andrew, Simon Peter’s brother, said to him, ‘There is a boy here who has five barley loaves and two fish. But what are they among so many people?’ Jesus said, ‘Make the people sit down.’ Now there was a great deal of grass in the place; so they sat down, about five thousand in all. Then Jesus took the loaves, and when he had given thanks, he distributed them to those who were seated; so also the fish, as much as they wanted. When they were satisfied, he told his disciples, ‘Gather up the fragments left over, so that nothing may be lost.’ So they gathered them up, and from the fragments of the five barley loaves, left by those who had eaten, they filled twelve baskets. When the people saw the sign that he had done, they began to say, ‘This is indeed the prophet who is to come into the world.’

When Jesus realized that they were about to come and take him by force to make him king, he withdrew again to the mountain by himself.

---- mine,

I know all your needs just as I knew the need of the crowd - they were hungry and I fed them first with spiritual food to fill their hungry hearts and then with bread and fish to feed their natural hunger. The world experiences both spiritual hunger and bodily hunger but spiritual hunger is worse. If not met it gnaws at the soul and the spirit of those who are ignorant of Me and My Word. Every attempt to satisfy it without Me and My help only leads to greater distress, hunger, and want the end result of which is despair. This is why all who do know and love Me must live the Gospel by their lives. When the world sees you they must desire what you have and when they receive it and are satisfied, they too, in turn, will witness to the Father's love. The Church keeps safe in the treasury of her memory the 12 baskets that were leftover and this is My pledge and My assurance to all who make their home in her - she will never run out of the Bread of Life and the Cup of Salvation until I return.