John chapter 6

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John Chapter 6
5 Then Jesus lifted up His eyes, and seeing a great multitude coming toward Him, He said to Philip, “Where shall we buy bread, that these may eat?” 6 But this He said to test him, for He Himself knew what He would do.



This is what I like from the book of John. By reading the book of John thoroughly, we are assured that our GOD is the almighty one. If something unexpected happened in our lives, just treat it as a test from GOD for us, just like Jesus tested Philips. GOD knows what He will do and He will solve the problem just like in this story. GOD tests us because He want to know whether we can restrain the test or not.

However, after received grace from GOD, our faith shouldn’t only base on the physical sign and grace that GOD has shown to us. Jesus doesn’t expect this kind of relationship from us (v. 27). This kind of relationship is not strong enough and can be broken easily. We can see the example from this chapter, in verse 15, it’s written that those people after seen the sign of Jesus wanted to make Him king, nevertheless, in chapter 66, we can see that many of those disciples followed Jesus no more. Those disciplies gone because the reason they followed Jesus solely based on the physical bread. Their faith has no foundation, their faith is not based on Jesus Christ's teaching. This is why our faith should be rooted in good and solid foundation so that we will abide in Him forever.