Acts 8:26-40 / John 6:44-51
As it is often said, we eat to live.
Eating is one of the basic human activities, because eating food fulfills our basic human need for life and survival.
And we are careful about what we put into our mouths and what we are eating.
We not only want our food to be nutritious and tasty, we eat foods that are good for our body and for our health.
So we need to choose what we want to eat.
And we also must know what we should not eat, as in we should not be eating anything that we know is poisonous, or food is rotting and has gone bad.
In the gospel, Jesus declares that He is the bread of life.
And anyone who believes in Him has eternal life.
We eat food to survive, to be healthy and to have strength.
But we believe in Jesus because He is the bread of life that will help us to attain eternal life.
When we partake of the Eucharist, the bread of life that Jesus gives us, then we will live life to the full, here on earth, as well as eternal life above.