Looking to the Lord for bread and looking to the Lord as bread?

[b]"The Father gives you the True Bread from Heaven" [/b](John 6:35a).

Why are we following the Lord?
Is it for what He can do for us?
Is itso we can enjoy His blessing?
Is it because He supplies our needs?
Do we want the gifts or the Gift?
If our motivation is for blessings then we will soon be disappointed.
Indeed, from this time forward, many of His disciples turned back and stopped following Him. How many of us will continue to follow when the Lord fails to respond to us in the way we have grown accustomed?

The Lord may provide you with bread for a season, but there is a difference between looking to the Lord for bread and looking to the Lord as bread. [b]May God show us the difference.[/b] The Gift of God is not what Christ can do for you, but Who He Himself is.

[b]"... I am the Bread of Life"[/b] (John 6:32b).

The ones who seek bread from the Lord will be temporarily filled, but all who seek the Lord as Bread will be constantly satisfied. What is
more, they will have resources from which to feed others. It is a shame that many Christians only seek to be filled, and still they are never satisfied. They are content with a meager pittance, for a few crumbs from the table. They are constantly obsessed with being filled. To such ones we can only say that it is time to seek the
Lord, not for what He can give you, but for Himself.

[url=http://theschoolofchrist.org/articles/gift.html ]source[/url]