John 6:26-27 KJV
Jesus answered them and said, Verily, verily, I say unto you, Ye seek me, not because ye saw the miracles, but because ye did eat of the loaves, and were filled.
Labour not for the meat which perisheth, but for that meat which endureth unto everlasting life, which the Son of man shall give unto you: for him hath God the Father sealed.
The spiritual battle we will war with the entirety of our lives is the battle of which meat we labor to obtain.
Jesus said these who had followed Him (and who will, by the time this chapter is over, turn away from Him) had sought Him not for the miracles (the spiritual work in their hearts) but because He had fed them. But then Jesus said the meat they should labor for is not that meat that perishes (we eat it and a few hours later we must eat again) but we should labor for a meat which never perishes. They of course said they wanted that meat, but it becomes apparent that even then they understood the meat to be a physical fulfillment and not a spiritual one.
It has been my experience that we, just as the Jews did in John chapter six, tend to turn everything into a physical experience rather than a spiritual one. Even when we do those things that are spiritual in nature, we often do them because we desire in exchange a physical/temporal reward.
Our challenge
Our battle
Our struggle
Is to labor for the meat which, “endureth unto everlasting life”: to truly labor for spiritual rewards and not worldly ones.
Jesus answered them and said, Verily, verily, I say unto you, Ye seek me, not because ye saw the miracles, but because ye did eat of the loaves, and were filled.
Labour not for the meat which perisheth, but for that meat which endureth unto everlasting life, which the Son of man shall give unto you: for him hath God the Father sealed.
The spiritual battle we will war with the entirety of our lives is the battle of which meat we labor to obtain.
Jesus said these who had followed Him (and who will, by the time this chapter is over, turn away from Him) had sought Him not for the miracles (the spiritual work in their hearts) but because He had fed them. But then Jesus said the meat they should labor for is not that meat that perishes (we eat it and a few hours later we must eat again) but we should labor for a meat which never perishes. They of course said they wanted that meat, but it becomes apparent that even then they understood the meat to be a physical fulfillment and not a spiritual one.
It has been my experience that we, just as the Jews did in John chapter six, tend to turn everything into a physical experience rather than a spiritual one. Even when we do those things that are spiritual in nature, we often do them because we desire in exchange a physical/temporal reward.
Our challenge
Our battle
Our struggle
Is to labor for the meat which, “endureth unto everlasting life”: to truly labor for spiritual rewards and not worldly ones.
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