Reflection - 53

“I am the bread of the life. Whoever comes to me will never be hungry, and whoever comes in me will never be thirsty.” (John 6:35)

Once up on a time a king , who immolated his beloved son. In order to prove his love towards his loving people. Thus the beloved son sacrificed his life for his father’s loving children.

This story not a tale, but a real incident. In this story the particular king is our father in heaven. And the beloved son is our lord Jesus Christ. God the father sent his son Jesus to the earth, to wipe away the sins of his loving people. Since Jesus gave his life to the world. So He is a wounded savior of the world.

Why Jesus call himself  the bread of life? Jesus understood that God promised them manna from heaven to sustain them on their journey to the promised land. Bread is  the very essential for  life. We cannot live without food for very long. Bread sustains us. 1 John chapter 4, verses 19, says that; “We love because He first loved us”. Jesus loves us. In daily mass, He gives his body the symbolic form of bread. Why does Jesus give his body as a bread for us? As we are selected people, we have to become like that bread to be broken for others. How it can be possible in our life? First we want to check the relationship with loving God. Nobody can’t become a broken bread without the personal relationship with the loving God. We should build up a good relationship with God, through personal prayer, reciting rosary, helping one another, helps to grow other, doing virtues and sacrifice etc…

If we want to become another broken bread, we have to go through the process like the granites of wheat becoming the form of bread. St. Paul’s letter to Romans, chapter 5, verses 8, we see that; “But God commended his love toward us, in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us.”. So we should think about our sacrifice for Jesus. He carried out our own sins and he suffered our own pains and sorrows. What am I sacrificing for our Lord Jesus, in my life?  What can I give as sacrificing to God?

In this meditation, let’s meditate upon, how is my relationship with God, especially my prayer and spiritual activities. Also thing it, how can I give my life as total sacrifice? If we follow these  things , we could become an another broken bread. Let’s meditate upon it. Wish you a fruitful meditation.

Jijin I.