“耶稣说：‘我是生命的粮，到我这里来的，必定不饿；信我的，永远不渴。’” - 约 6:35
神已经拯救了衪的子民脱离埃及为奴之地，他们很快便发觉自己正身处没有食物的荒凉旷野。然而，他们还未向神祈求，神已经知道衪子民的需要了，神告诉摩西，衪要将“从天降下的粮食”赐给他们（出埃及记 16:4）。从天降下的粮食？这是真的吗？
诗篇78篇有更生动的描述：“〔神〕敞开天上的门，降吗哪像雨给他们吃，将天上的粮食赐给他们，各人吃大能者的食物… 。”（24-25节）。
在约翰福音6章中，耶稣把自己比作这天上的粮食，衪也是从天上来到世间，祂也赐生命给人类。衪甚至说：“一切见子而信的人得永生。”
我们领受基督在主餐中赐给我们属天的灵粮，就显明我们已接受基督进入我们的生命中。
尽管我们不是藉着领受主餐的饼和酒而“得救”的，但吃喝主餐促使我们在神藉基督赐给我们的丰盛生命中追求更深的成长。
祷告
主耶稣，惟愿我们每一天 － 特别是当你赐我们天粮的时候 － 都领受你自己和你所赐福我们的一切美好恩赐，好叫我们能与你同享永远的丰盛生命。阿们。
约翰福音 6:31-40
31我们的祖宗在旷野吃过吗哪，如经上写着说：‘他从天上赐下粮来给他们吃。’”
32耶稣说：“我实实在在地告诉你们：那从天上来的粮不是摩西赐给你们的，乃是我父将天上来的真粮赐给你们。
33因为神的粮就是那从天上降下来赐生命给世界的。”
34他们说：“主啊，常将这粮赐给我们！”
35耶稣说：“我就是生命的粮。到我这里来的，必定不饿；信我的，永远不渴。
36只是我对你们说过，你们已经看见我，还是不信。
37凡父所赐给我的人，必到我这里来；到我这里来的，我总不丢弃他。
38因为我从天上降下来，不是要按自己的意思行，乃是要按那差我来者的意思行。
39差我来者的意思就是：他所赐给我的，叫我一个也不失落，在末日却叫他复活。
40因为我父的意思是叫一切见子而信的人得永生，并且在末日我要叫他复活。”
Angel Food
"Jesus declared, 'I am the bread of life. Whoever comes to me will never go hungry, and whoever believes in me will never be thirsty.'" - John 6:35
God had rescued his people from slavery in Egypt, and they soon found themselves in a barren desert without food. But God knew what his people needed before they asked him, and God told Moses that "bread from heaven" would rain down for them (Exodus 16:4). Bread from heaven? Really?
Psalm 78 is even more descriptive: "[God] opened the doors of the heavens; he rained down manna for the people to eat, he gave them the grain of heaven. Human beings ate the bread of angels. . . ." (vv. 24-25).
In John 6, Jesus compares himself to this heavenly bread. Jesus too came from heaven to earth. He too came to give life to humanity. He even says, "Everyone who looks to the Son and believes in him shall have eternal life."
Our receiving of Christ into our lives is reflected in our reception of the heavenly food he gives us in the Lord's Supper.
Though we are not "saved" by eating and drinking the Lord's Supper, eating and drinking the Lord's Supper helps us grow ever deeper into the abundant Christ-life that God gives us.
Prayer
Lord Jesus, each day, and especially when you give us your heavenly food, may we receive you and all your good gifts, that we may have full life forever with you. Amen.
