John 6: Needs for Life

After reading John 6, I came away with @ least two things: 
1.  Jesus' reigns!

•  He defies the culinary world, collecting 12 baskets of leftovers after feeding thousands with only 2 fish and 5 loaves.  
• He defies all rules of physics by walkin' on the turbulent sea, he rules creation.

2. Jesus gives life!

•  He draws a parallel (v32-33; v48-51) between how God provided for Moses and the Israelites by giving them manna in the wilderness, which gave them life.
• To the eternal LIFE sustaining/giving gift of faith/life that only the Father can give. (which dismantles the idea that we "initiate" faith, instead we receive it v44; 14:6).

 You also will be highly familiar with Jesus phrase, "I am..."
 "I am the bread of life." (v35, 48)  "I am the bread that came down from heaven." (v41) "I am the living bread." (v51)
This is the most frequent name for God in the Old Testament (over 5,000 times). God spoke of His name to Moses for the first time, "I AM WHO I AM" (Exodus 3:14).  Moses would say, "He Is' sent me" literally "Yahweh sent me."  The 5,000 who ate the bread and those Jesus taught in the synagogue (v59) new of this Moses' story about the "I AM" about Yahweh. 

Try this it out...
Breathe in and breathe out. Listen as you breathe. Breathe from your mouth, in and now out. Can you hear it? If not, as you breathe in say, Yah, and breathe-out saying Weh.  Again, Yah-weh.

Psalm 150:6 "Let everything that has breath praise the Lord." 

From the first breath we take as a new born until the our very last draw of oxygen, we breathe the name of God.  Whether one believes in the "I AM" for eternal life or not, every creature God has created utters the name of God as they live.  So, "Let everything that has breath praise the Lord." This is a fact, not a command!

Just as breath is necessary to live and  food is necessary for earthly life, Christ is necessary for life eternal.