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What Do You Seek?©

            Jesus performed miracle after miracle in the presence of thousands of people.  From healing the sick to feeding five thousand people with only five loaves of bread and two fish, the people were amazed by him and started to form crowds to follow him.  They were hungry for more.  But they didn’t even know what they should be searching for.  They were asking for perishable, finite, limited food.  Food that wouldn’t keep them satisfied for long.  They wanted to see more signs, more wonders.   But Jesus had more to offer than even these miracles.  Jesus offered abundant life.  “I am the bread of life,” he said.  “Whoever comes to me will never be hungry; and whoever believes in me will never be thirsty.” 

            What do you seek? We get hungry and yearn for something to fill us up, too.  But what can trip us up is that we can easily think we’re coming to Jesus to fill us up, just like the crowd went to Jesus asking for signs – but what we’re really doing is searching for more perishable food, because we never get satisfied

            Part of it has to do with our intentions:  “Man I really need some energy for this coming week – I need to go to church so I can get pepped up”  It won’t last. I go to church because it really makes my wife  happy that the family can be together at least one day a week”  That’s not going to last either.  “I’m here because the people are so nice and loving”  That’s not always going to do it for you.  “I’m here because it’s a place that makes me feel better about myself.”  That’s not always going to fully satisfy you.  “I go to church because it helps me feel less guilty about my past life.”  But that’s not enduring either.

            And for all the reasons we go to church and all the ways we think we’re seeking Jesus, what we’re really after is perishable food – like eating a piece of bread hoping we won’t be hungry again tomorrow – and then we are.

            The saying is true: we are what we eat. Jesus says, “seek me”  - when Jesus am what you are really after, and when you have truly opened yourself to him – “I will feed you, I will fill you up,” he says.  “I will sustain you so that you will never have to scratch and peck and search and yearn for something, anything, that will just leave you hungry again.”

Copyright © 2009 Amy DeWitte. All Rights Reserved. No portion of this writing may be reproduced in any form without specific, written permission of the author.

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