The Best Bread

I am the bread of life. John 6:48

Those who feed upon Christ are supremely blessed! They shall never hunger. They shall hunger after more of Jesus, but not after anything else besides Jesus. I was greatly pleased some time ago to hear a gentleman say, who had tried to preach another doctrine, that a certain neighborhood which he spoke of was so impregnated with what was called “the gospel” that he could not succeed with his speculations. He said that if men once drank this gospel doctrine it made them so bigoted in their love for it that the cleverest person could not get them out of it. I thought to myself, “This witness is true.” ...

 Moreover, he has in Christ food that he can never exhaust. He may feed, and feed, and yet he shall never find that he lacks for meat. I have many an old book in my library in which there have been bookworms, and I have sometimes amused myself with tracing a worm. I do not know how he gets to the volume originally, but being there he eats his way into it. He bores a hole in a direct line, and sometimes I find that he dies before he gets half-way through the tome. Now and then a worm has eaten his way right through from one wooden cover to another, yes, and through the cover also. This was a most successful bookworm. Few of us can eat our way quite so far. I am one of the bookworms that have not got half-way into my Bible yet, but I am eating my way as fast as I can. This one thing I have proven to myself beyond all question, I shall never, never exhaust this precious Book; much less shall I exhaust the wondrous person of my divinely-blessed Lord. He is that bread which came down from heaven. He is utterly inexhaustible.

The Best Bread - Sermon 1940, Charles Haddon Spurgeon
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