We’ve all laughed when someone scurries around looking for his car keys, all the while holding them. Maybe we’ve even been that person. It’s comical because we automatically stop looking when we’ve found what’s missing.
But it is tragic when those who profess to have found Jesus later turn away. Last year I read of a former megachurch pastor who left his wife, later announcing that he no longer considered himself a Christian.
We have to wonder what kind of relationship he had with Jesus, who declared (John 6:35), “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.”
Jesus parallels our spiritual needs with our basic requirements for food and drink. His words remind us of the prophets who often warned against pursuing that which does not deliver. Cf. Jeremiah 2:13.
Isaiah 55 invites us to eat and drink freely from God’s table, and then asks the penetrating question, “Why spend money on what is not bread, and your labor on what does not satisfy?” Why indeed.
Any of us can veer off track, but those who know Jesus will finally be satisfied in Him. He has abundantly and freely met our needs, for time and eternity. In Him we have every blessing. Ephesians 1:3
Are you still searching?
“On the last and greatest day of the Feast, Jesus stood and said in a loud voice, ‘If anyone is thirsty, let him come to me and drink. Whoever believes in me, as the Scripture has said, streams of living water will flow from within him.'” John 7:37–38