The Living Bread

One of the perks of being in a small ward is that our kids often get the opportunity to write talks and speak in Primary. Phoebe had one of those chances yesterday. Her assigned topic was "Something you learned from Come Follow Me this week," which ended up being very stressful for her. We talked through lots of different options, but ultimately she figured out her topic from reading the chapters of scripture for the week. She wrote ninety-seven percent of this talk, I did marginal editing and some suggesting. And Peter typed some of it up for her, which I thought was very sweet.

Oh, and she did a fantastic job delivering it. The very rowdy Primary kids calmed right down and listened to her.

Jesus is the living bread.

In John chapter 6 we read about the feeding of the 5 thousand. One day Jesus was walking and five thousand men, not counting the women and the children, came to him because of the miracles they had seen him do. Jesus asked his Apostle Philip where they could buy bread for these people to eat?

John verse 7 says, Philip answered him, two hundred Pennies worth of bread is not sufficient for them for every one of them will only take a little. That means they didn't have enough money to buy food for everyone. And another Apostle, Andrew, said there is a little boy here who has five loaves of bread and two fishes. But they are so little among so many. And Jesus said make the men sit down and there was lots of grass for the men to sit on and they sat. And the disciples brought the bread and fish to him and after he had given thanks and blessed the bread and the fish he gave it to his disciples who gave it to the men. And they ate and were filled. And Jesus said to his disciples gather up the fragments so that they will not be lost. And the next day the five thousand found him again and they wanted him to feed them again. John chapter 6 verse 35 says 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. That means if we follow Jesus we will be blessed and if we believe in Jesus we will be blessed even more. I say these things in the name of Jesus Christ amen.