Hungers

In the Gospel of John, Chapter 6, we read of the feeding of five thousand with five small barley loaves and two fish provided by a little boy. As the people ate, they realized that Jesus had special powers and intended to make him king.Yesterday, the Rev. Michael Blaess explained in his sermon that the crowd’s ideas of a king were different from the title that Jesus was claiming. Instead of a monarch that would rule by fear and force, Jesus was a different type of king who had come to rule the world through love. Jesus knew that the crowd wasn’t ready to understand, so he withdrew to a mountain by himself and later sailed to Capernaum.But the crowds persisted. When they found that Jesus was gone, they too got in their boats and set off for Capernaum looking for him. The crowd didn’t want signs; they wanted more bread. Instead, Jesus knew that they needed more than full stomachs; they needed a full life.Michael talked about our hungers. We long to lead a genuine