Spiritual Principle: Bread of Life

John 6:33 AMP

For the Bread of God is He Who comes down out of heaven and gives life to the world

Have you ever seen your life flash before your eyes or been so close to loosing everything?  I have.  A routine surgery almost turned deadly for me.  I had two wisdom teeth abstracted from the upper part of my mouth.  I left the dentist office with the normal side effects of such a surgery, swelling, pain, and a little bleeding.   As the days progressed things increasingly became worse.   Infection set in and spread from my throat to my temples, causing large pockets of bacteria to form inside my mouth.  My face enlarged almost twice its size.  I knew something was wrong and called the dentist office back.  The nurse asked me a series of questions and then said they needed me to come back to the dentist office as soon as I could.  I was scheduled to go in the following day and until then I was to take antibiotics called in by the doctor.  The pain intensified and the swelling increased, I couldn't close my mouth.  

Tears streamed down my face soaking the front of my t-shirt.  As I muttered the words JESUS, I couldn't do anything at the time but stay in continuous prayer.   I heard a faint whisper, three simple words  as I struggled to maintain my breathing, "bread-of-life".  Immediately I began to thank him for healing.   As each "thank you" escaped from swollen lips I could feel my cheeks return more and more to their normal size.   The rules of this world tells us to rely on our careers, money, material possession, and people.  Often times we feel if we don't have an abundance of these things then we don't have security.   Today's economic climate is changing our perception of security.   Now financial advisers are saying not to consider your house as an asset anymore   The turbulent job market decreases the value of careers we have invested time and money in.  It makes you wonder why do we continue to rely on these temporal things.


I learned a life changing lesson this week, that life is fleeting and that I have to anchor my soul to something eternal.  I have to believe, cleave, trust, and rely on something bigger than life, the bread of life.