Sunday, August 11, 2024
Sunday Reflection: The Bread of Life
John 6:35 says this:
Jesus said, “I am the bread of life. Whoever comes to me will never be hungry, and whoever
believes in me will never be thirsty.”
For me, this is one of the passages that demonstrate something important: the Jesus used metaphor to make an important point, to reveal truth. He isn't literally made of bread. Yet he is getting to a deep meaning through something that isn't literally true, as many great communicators have done for millennia.
And yet... there are people who stoutly believe that all of the Bible is literally true-- that, apparently, Jesus was made of bread.
But we know that God teaches us with metaphor, with parables, with things that are harder than literal truths because they require us to engage with them and untangle the meaning.
And I have a lot more to learn.
