TUESDAY, June 10th, 2008

Hey there everyone, I hope that your summer is going a wonderful as mine is! I hope that you are planning on coming to our campout this thursday! Dont forget: we are meeting at the churchat 1:45 and leaving by 2:00PM. Make sure that you are in church tomorrow night for several reasons: We will be announcing the reward trip qualifiers, and giving all of the last details about our campout! Come early and just hang out! We are going to have lots of fun!

A Few Thoughts From Yesterday:
Lucy: Good Job Being First!
Jessica B: Good Job waking Lucy up! :)
McCue: I am so thankful that you have been a part of that cool Bible study! Keep up the good work man!
Cary: you are funny man! Peter was the one that walked on the water, and that is in Matthew 14:29. Good try though! :)
Carl: What a great thought, They would have enjoyed that great ride so much more if they trusted what Christ said. We will also enjoy this awesome ride through life if we will just trust what Christ says. GOOD STUFF!
Alex: AWESOME!! I am glad you are doing the glowstring thing... make me a pair too!! We will get good at it this weekend!
Phil: Glad you stopped by to check in on things!
RACHEL: Where are you girl? Get on and call Ryan too! (you're probably talking to him right now arent you!!)

John 6:22-27
22 On the following day, when the people who were standing on the other side of the sea saw that there was no other boat there, except that one which His disciples had entered, and that Jesus had not entered the boat with His disciples, but His disciples had gone away alone
23 however, other boats came from Tiberias, near the place where they ate bread after the Lord had given thanks
24 when the people therefore saw that Jesus was not there, nor His disciples, they also got into boats and came to Capernaum, seeking Jesus.
25 And when they found Him on the other side of the sea, they said to Him, “Rabbi, when did You come here?”
26 Jesus answered them and said, “Most assuredly, I say to you, you seek Me, not because you saw the signs, but because you ate of the loaves and were filled.
27 Do not labor for the food which perishes, but for the food which endures to everlasting life, which the Son of Man will give you, because God the Father has set His seal on Him.”

This is quite an interesting passage. I had to read it a few times to completely understand iit. I will explain todays devotion verse by verse and then give the application at the end:

22. Remember those people that wanted to make Jesus the king? Well they are back... They were searching for Jesus and they were doing some serious research. They knew that the disciples had gotten into a boat the day before but Jesus was not with them.

23. There were some other boats out there from Tiberius, but Jesus was not in those boats either.

24. So they decided to go over to Caperneum... I guess they figured that if they followed the disciples then they would find Jesus... they were right!

25. They found Jesus. The first thing they wanted to ask Him was: How in the world did you get over here?

26. Jesus tells them, you are not chasing me because of some miracle I did, you are chasing me because I gave you some food. Think about that... these people have seen the son of God doing all kinds of great things, but they dont even care about that... they just want to eat. Sound familiar?

27. Jesus explains that they should not be searching for food that will fill them for a moment... (remember the woman at the well) but they should be searching for the "bread of life". I think it is Amazing how Jesus fits the plan of the gospel with whatever situation He is in.

Application: Think about how passionate these people were in their search for Jesus. They wanted what He had so much that they were literally looking around searching, swimming (or boating) doing whatever they had to to get to Jesus! Are you searching passionately for Christ in your life?

Then second: Jesus explained that these people were fed with a loaf of bread and they wanted more of that... Jesus said: you think that is Good? you should see the bread that satisfies forever! The bread of life! If you have not tasted the bread of life, then you should accept Christ today!

Great Job teenagers! I love this! Stay faithful!