Today's Verse: John 6:35

Monday, December 3, 1962

Jesus declared, "I am the bread of life. He who comes to me will never go hungry, and he who believes in me will never be thirsty."
— John 6:35
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Thoughts on Today's Verse...

We crave food at regular intervals during the day, and we must have water every day. During this holiday season, food occupies our thoughts and fills up our activities. However, deep in our souls is a hunger and thirst, a soul-hunger and a soul-thirst. Food, drink, and chemicals cannot meet this hunger or remove it from us. This hunger was the desire built into us by our Creator, placed there when he knit us together in our mother's womb (Psalm 139:13-16). God did this so we, as the apostle Paul told the Athenians, "would seek him and perhaps reach out for him and find him, though he is not far from any one of us" (Acts 17:27). Our soul-hunger, our soul-thirst, can only be satisfied by Jesus, the bread and the water of life, who brings true life to our souls!

My Prayer...

Please fill me, dear Father, with Jesus. Please give me Jesus today as my "daily bread." Please bring Jesus to me as the water of my spiritual life. I want to find life in all its fullness in him.* Precious Lord, Jesus, my brother and Savior, fill me and touch me with your presence. Let me know tangibly that you are with me, filling me, walking with me, in me. I ask this so that I can serve you by blessing those around me with your grace, and pointing them to you, Jesus, the bread and water of life, God's Son, my Savior. In your name I pray. Amen.
* John 10:10.

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Today's Verse is a free daily devotional that includes a Bible verse, thought and prayer.

The Thoughts and Prayer on Today's Verse are written by Phil Ware.

All scripture quotations, unless otherwise indicated, are taken from the HOLY BIBLE, NEW INTERNATIONAL VERSION. © 1973, 1978, 1984, 2011 by International Bible Society. Used by permission of Zondervan Publishing House.

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