And the bread which I shall give for the life of the world is my flesh. But nourishment is for a purpose beyond refreshment, and just as the physical lives of our little tourist group were given renewed strength those twenty years past in Spanish Morocco, so the gift of spiritual food is intended to impart strength for living beyond the act of eating. It is not sufficient simply to be satiated. God has no time for the kind of purely personal pietism that parks itself at the altar, guised as holiness, but insular, hoarding and self-serving. Neither has God any time for living which partakes of the divine but refuses to reflect the divine.
Christian living is the consequence of Christian worship.
Therefore be imitators of God, as beloved children. And walk in love, as Christ loved us and gave himself up for us, a fragrant offering and sacrifice to God. That skeptical crowd of two thousand years ago knew him in his human flesh as this Jesus, the son of Joseph. You know him in your human flesh as the bread of life. May that Bread of Life nourish our lives, and strengthen us to help transform our own skeptical world, that this Jesus, the son of Joseph, may be known by all to be the very bread who has come down from heave n , he who is none other than the Christ, the Son of the living God.