A small restaurant in Las Pinas serves yummy desserts, but the favorite of diners is called Pie Surprise. The dessert looks like an ordinary pie but what’s inside—which is changed daily—is a secret. Sometimes it has sweet buko mixed with chunks of mangoes, sometimes it has shredded melon drowned in creamy cheese, etc.
The restaurant is not advertized, yet it is popular among people in the neighborhood by word-of-mouth.
Jesus seemed to have a secret menu, too. When He told His disciples that He had “food” they knew nothing about, didn’t it sound like a surprise pie, too?
In John 4:30-34, many people from the village lined up to see Him. Because He had not eaten, His disciples kept urging him to take something. But Jesus replied (verse 32 NLT), “I have a kind of food you know nothing about.”
Puzzled, His disciples didn’t know what food He was talking about! Jesus explained (verse 34), “My nourishment comes from doing the will of God, who sent me, and from finishing his work.”
This secret food has been disclosed and it is now offered to one and all.
Jesus invites all of us to trust His ability to satisfy the deepest longings of and emptiness in our heart by His caring grace. If we accept His invitation, we would discover how to truly live—not just by physical food that delights and keeps us healthy—but by the Spirit of our God that satisfies our soul.
Only Christ, the Living Bread, can satisfy our spiritual hunger.
Self reflection: How can I thoroughly digest and share this with others so that they, too, may never be spiritually hungry again?
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