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Jesus is inviting us into a process of being taught by God. He uses the metaphor of eating bread.

Study digestion. Eating seems simple on the surface, but it is really very complex process. culminating in nutrition at the cellular level.

Not only digestion is to be considered, but the long process of getting food to our plates and into our mouths.

But, today, we begin with that part of the process that begins with eating which is a metaphor for believing and internalizing and metabolizing our belief with the culmination of eternal life.

Let the words of Jesus sink in.

John 6:41-51 (NRSV)

Then the Jews began to complain about him because he said, “I am the bread that came down from heaven.” They were saying, “Is not this Jesus, the son of Joseph, whose father and mother we know? How can he now say, ‘I have come down from heaven’?”

Jesus answered them, “Do not complain among yourselves. No one can come to me unless drawn by the Father who sent me; and I will raise that person up on the last day. It is written in the prophets, ‘And they shall all be taught by God.’ Everyone who has heard and learned from the Father comes to me. Not that anyone has seen the Father except the one who is from God; he has seen the Father.”

“Very truly, I tell you, whoever believes has eternal life. I am the bread of life. Your ancestors ate the manna in the wilderness, and they died. This is the bread that comes down from heaven, so that one may eat of it and not die. I am the living bread that came down from heaven. Whoever eats of this bread will live forever; and the bread that I will give for the life of the world is my flesh.”