Life Eternal

 John 6: 52-59

Eat This Bread and Live Forever

⁵² Then the Jews began to argue sharply among themselves, “How can this man give us his flesh to eat?”

⁵³ Jesus said to them, “Very truly I tell you, unless you eat the flesh of the Son of Man and drink his blood, you have no life in you. ⁵⁴ Whoever eats my flesh and drinks my blood has eternal life, and I will raise them up at the last day. ⁵⁵ For my flesh is real food and my blood is real drink. ⁵⁶ Whoever eats my flesh and drinks my blood remains in me, and I in them. ⁵⁷ Just as the living Father sent me and I live because of the Father, so the one who feeds on me will live because of me. ⁵⁸ This is the bread that came down from heaven. Your ancestors ate manna and died, but whoever feeds on this bread will live forever.” ⁵⁹ He said this while teaching in the synagogue in Capernaum.

Don't we always think of "Life Eternal" as the NEXT life, the reward for living a good life here on earth? Yet, Jesus teaches us that we can have a foretaste of that life NOW!  When we eat his Body and drink his Blood, we are not only in the Divine Presence, but the Diving Presence is IN us!  We are in heaven! Perhaps because we don't think of it this way, we don't feel it or realize it, for receiving Holy Communion can become so routine that it loses its impact.  If that is the case, then it's time to stop, retool and start over again.

Bro. Rene