IMPORTANT NOTE: TODAY’S “BREAK THE SILENCE- HUMAN SLAVERY IS NOT DEAD” CONFERENCE IS POSTPONED.
NEW DATE: MARCH 17, 2016
COMMUNITY GATHERING 7-9 PM
DAY CONFERENCE 9:30-4:00
Today’s Scripture John 6:22 – 40 (full passage at the bottom)
27 “Do not work for food that spoils, but for food that endures to eternal life, which the Son of Man will give you. 35 Jesus declared, “I am the bread of life.”
Yesterday our staff and volunteers kept working like crazy with hopes that this Michigan snowstorm would not be as bad as they were saying. Fact is, the weather report has been wrong before.
What we love about our staff is that they have a “work for what food that endures” attitude. Nobody called off. Everybody stayed at their post doing their very best to be ready just in case the weather report was wrong. It wasn’t. Thousands of kids and state workers prayed they would finally get snow days, They got them!
At 4:00 we were almost ready to postpone the Break the Silence conference and one of the volunteers said, “somebody should tell Clare that human trafficking doesn’t stop just because it’s snowing,” Everyone in the room burst into laughter or responded, “you definitely don’t have to tell Clare that!” Fact is, Clare was holding on for dear life before we postponed. Fact is, Crossroads staff is relentless, working for “The Bread of Life”.
So when you work for bread that doesn’t spoil, you can work relentlessly and when things don’t go as planned, you can let go and another plan becomes the plan. Yes, we had hundreds registered, staff and volunteers who have worked their tails off, speakers coming from all over the state, but now their is a new plan. We are working for bread that doesn’t spoil.
Are you working for food that doesn’t spoil? When plans change is your plan spoiled or can you trust God that the new plan is food that endures? Try the 3G practice-
- Give up – working for food that spoils. Fast a meal and consider what you are working for…
- Give in – to hear God’s plan for your work.
- Give out – your energy to food that endures for eternal life.
Eating our bread,
Clare and Scott
John 6: 22-40
The next day the crowd that had stayed on the opposite shore of the lake realized that only one boat had been there, and that Jesus had not entered it with his disciples, but that they had gone away alone. 23 Then some boats from Tiberias landed near the place where the people had eaten the bread after the Lord had given thanks. 24 Once the crowd realized that neither Jesus nor his disciples were there, they got into the boats and went to Capernaum in search of Jesus.
25 When they found him on the other side of the lake, they asked him, “Rabbi, when did you get here?”
26 Jesus answered, “Very truly I tell you, you are looking for me, not because you saw the signsI performed but because you ate the loaves and had your fill. 27 Do not work for food that spoils, but for food that endures to eternal life, which the Son of Man will give you. For on him God the Father has placed his seal of approval.”
28 Then they asked him, “What must we do to do the works God requires?”
29 Jesus answered, “The work of God is this: to believe in the one he has sent.”
30 So they asked him, “What sign then will you give that we may see it and believe you? What will you do? 31 Our ancestors ate the manna in the wilderness; as it is written: ‘He gave them bread from heaven to eat.’
32 Jesus said to them, “Very truly I tell you, it is not Moses who has given you the bread from heaven, but it is my Father who gives you the true bread from heaven. 33 For the bread of God is the bread that comes down from heaven and gives life to the world.”
34 “Sir,” they said, “always give us this bread.”
35 Then Jesus declared, “I am the bread of life. Whoever comes to me will never go hungry, and whoever believes in me will never be thirsty. 36 But as I told you, you have seen me and still you do not believe. 37 All those the Father gives me will come to me, and whoever comes to me I will never drive away. 38 For I have come down from heaven not to do my will but to do the willof him who sent me. 39 And this is the will of him who sent me, that I shall lose none of all those he has given me, but raise them up at the last day. 40 For my Father’s will is that everyone who looks to the Son and believes in him shall have eternal life, and I will raise them up at the last day.”