John 6:44-48

  No one comes to the Father except through the Son.  No one comes to the Son but those who are drawn to Him by the Father. Jesus did not leave us alone but gave us Holy Spirit who will take His teachings and make them known to us.

 Jesus is the way. He is the very Word of God made flesh. He came from the Father and through His birth, death and resurrection  we have been granted eternal life with Him.  He died in our place, willingly, giving up His sinless life in place of ours.

Victory in Christ is something we walk in every day by the power of His grace, abiding in His strength and not our own. First5 

I am a child of God who believes
that we are all children of God
and we are all part of each other.
May we all know peace.

Thich Nhat Hanh

Whenever we forget that everyone is a child of God, who begins with unique divine DNA (“an imago Dei that begs to be allowed, to be fulfilled, and to show itself,” writes Richard Rohr), we lose sight that we are wired to care. Wired to give a damn. Collectively. Wired to not let anyone fall through the cracks of suffering, distrust or hatred. SabbathMoments 

John 6:44-48

44 No one can come to Me unless the Father who sent Me draws him; and I will raise him up at the last day. 45 It is written in the prophets, ‘And they shall all be taught by God.’ Therefore everyone who has heard and learned from the Father comes to Me. 46 Not that anyone has seen the Father, except He who is from God; He has seen the Father. 47 Most assuredly, I say to you, he who believes in Me has everlasting life. 48 I am the bread of life. The New King James Version

Belief in Jesus leads to eternal life. He repeats the metaphor that He is the “bread of life” and heightens the contrast between the manna that provided only physical nourishment to the Israelites in the desert and the bread from heaven that provides eternal life. Faithlife Study Bible

God draws people by teaching them. Everyone, then, who hears and learns from the Father will come to Christ. Hearing and learningfall short of seeing the Father. John declares, “No one has seen God at any time”. Here Jesus adds that only the Son has seen the Father. Though a person has not seen the Father, he or she can believe in Christ and have everlasting life. 

Christ is the bread of life. Those who believe in Him have life. The manna in the wilderness did not ultimately sustain life. Those who ate it eventually died because it could not provide everlasting life. The NKJV Study Bible

The gospel finds none willing to be saved in the humbling, holy manner, made known therein; but God draws with his word and the Holy Ghost; and man’s duty is to hear and learn; that is to say, to receive the grace offered, and consent to the promise. 

The advantage of the manna was small, it only referred to this life; but the living Bread is so excellent, that the man who feedeth on it shall never die. This bread is Christ’s human nature, which he took to present to the Father, as a sacrifice for the sins of the world; to purchase all things pertaining to life and godliness, for sinners of every nation, who repent and believe in him.  Matthew Henry’s Concise Commentary

Isaiah 54:13 All your children shall be taught by the LORD, and great shall be the peace of your children.

Jeremiah 31:34 No more shall every man teach his neighbor, and every man his brother, saying, ‘Know the LORD,’ for they all shall know Me, from the least of them to the greatest of them, says the LORD. For I will forgive their iniquity, and their sin I will remember no more.”

Luke 10:22 All things have been delivered to Me by My Father, and no one knows who the Son is except the Father, and who the Father is except the Son, and the one to whom the Son wills to reveal Him.”