Scripture
“anyone who eats my flesh and drinks my blood has eternal life and I will raise that person at the last day.”

Observation
Jesus expands on his statement that he is the bread of life.

To take in the bread of life we must eat his flesh and drink his blood. This is the only way to eternal life.

Jesus lives because of the living Father who sent him. Similarly anyone who feeds on him will live for ever.

Application
These words must have been shocking for the Jews who heard them. At a literal level, Jesus is promoting some form of cannibalism.

To feed on his flesh and drink his blood is to take him completely into our lives. It is a metaphor for being completely dependent on him for our life.

This is a daily dependence. Just as we need food every day for our bodies to prosper, we need to constantly take more of Jesus into our life.

How do we feed on Jesus? Constant communion with him has many facets- prayer, listening, reading the Scriptures, obedience.

These things need to be as natural to our life as breathing and eating.

Prayer
Bread of life, teach me how to feast on you. Sharpen my appetite for you, my Saviour. Amen.