The Divine Mission of Jesus Christ: Bread of Life
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This is part of a series of Visiting Teaching Messages featuring aspects of the mission of the Savior.
Detail from In Remberance of Me, by Walter Rane
Jesus said, “I am the living bread which came down from heaven: if any man eat of this bread, he shall live for ever” (John 6:51).
“Jesus teaches us, His disciples, that we should look to God each day
for the bread—the help and sustenance—we require in that particular
day,” said Elder D. Todd Christofferson
of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles. “The Lord’s invitation … speaks
of a loving God, aware of even the small, daily needs of His children
and eager to assist them, one by one. He is saying that we can ask in
faith of that Being ‘that giveth to all men liberally, and upbraideth
not; and it shall be given’ (James 1:5).”1 As we understand that Jesus Christ will provide for our needs, we will turn to Him for our spiritual sustenance.
Elder Jeffrey R. Holland
of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles invites us “to join in the
adventure of the earliest disciples of Christ who also yearned for the
bread of life—those who did not go back
but who came to Him, stayed with Him, and who recognized that for safety
and salvation there was no other to whom they could ever go.”2
Additional Scriptures
John 6:32–35; Alma 5:34; 3 Nephi 20:3–8
From the Scriptures
Jesus
Christ was teaching a multitude of more than 4,000 people. After three
days, He said to His disciples: “I have compassion on the multitude,
because they have … nothing to eat:
“And if I send them away fasting to their own houses, they will faint by the way. …
“And his disciples answered him, From whence can a man satisfy these men with bread here in the wilderness?
“And [Jesus] asked them, How many loaves have ye? And they said, Seven.”
Then Christ “took the seven loaves, and gave thanks, and brake, and gave to his disciples to set before them; …
“And they had a few small fishes: and he blessed, and commanded to set them also before them.
“So they did eat, and were filled: and they took up of the broken meat that was left seven baskets.” (See Mark 8:1–9.)
Consider This
When we come unto Christ, how does He nourish us?
