WORD 2day: 3rd Thursday of Easter
May 9, 2019: Acts 8:26-40; John 6:44-51
Christ proclaims himself to be the food, the nourishment of our being. I am the bread. ..the flesh that I give is for eternal life. The Word is made flesh and it is there for our taking. But how intent are we on taking in the nourishment?
Today we see the Eunuch who encounters the Word through Philip. Though it was the Spirit who led Philip there and initiated the process, it was the person's interest that propels the entire process of conversion and transformation. He invited Philip onto the carriage and he asked for the explanation and he demanded to be baptised. He was hungry for the Lord. He yearned for the nourishment. It was there and he claimed it for himself.
Anyone who eats of the bread that I give will never hunger and he who drinks of my blood will never thirst, says the Lord. The world is, and teaches us too to be, hungry for so many things in our lives - money, name, fame, power, possessions, prominence, ego, success, domination and manipulation! There is but just one thing we need to hunger for - the Lord, and only that will remove every other needless hunger!
The question is, how hungry am I for the Lord, for the life giving bread, for the ever living Word?