Is the gospel Chocolate or whole grain wheat bread?

I found this post in my "draft" folder dated in March.  Since I've been talking about making scripture reading delicious to my soul, it might be a good time to go ahead and finish this thought since it deals with food also.

John 6:24-71

Are we clueless to the power of God around us?

After you have your testimony bolstered and you are feeling that strength and courage, don't you just feel filled?  It is a great feeling.  And yet, it is easy to forget how great that feeling is and instead turn our focus to other stuff.  Sometimes we don't even realize what we are missing until we are filled again and compare the difference.

The people that were following Jesus at this time were the same people that had participated in the miracle of the bread and fishes the day before.  What a miracle and yet they were thinking of it as only a meal.  JST on verse 26 says "Ye seek me, not because ye desire to keep my sayings, neither because ye saw the miracles, but because ye did eat of the loaves and were filled."

The people say said their ancestors had been given bread from heaven before when they ate manna in the wilderness.  I guess they weren't thinking beyond their next meal.  It must have been a great "filling" since they are still following him and talking about it.

When they tell Jesus there has been bread from heaven before (so does that make it less wonderful?!) Jesus corrects them by saying  "Moses gave you not that bread from heaven; but my Father giveth you the true bread from heaven.  For the bread of God is he which cometh down from heaven, and giveth life unto the World."

Then said they unto him, Lord, give us this bread.

And Jesus said unto them, "I am the bread of life: he that cometh to me shall never hunger; and he that believeth on me shall never thirst.....Your fathers did eat manna in the wilderness and are dead.  This is the bread which cometh down from heaven that  a man may eat thereof and not die."

But lots of people stopped following him then. (v.66)

I guess that is why we are told to seek Jesus daily.  So we don't forget what it is like to be filled by Him.  So, we can understand that ball games, rainy weather, obnoxious people, etc. aren't the most important things in life.  We need to spend more of our time seeking after the Real bread.  The bread that will stick by us, fill us, give us the nourishment we need.