我仍然记得，那一顿我有生以来吃过的最美妙的晚餐；那次太太、我和密友在一间高级餐厅吃晚餐。我的牛排像牛油般在口里溶化，我们开怀大笑，我们谈到生活、事奉，还有各种天南地北的事情。那天晚上我们乐在其中，非常享受每一个环节——食物、朋友、环境、感受。
吃过那顿饭后，我整个人都感到非常满足——不单是因为我享用了极美味的牛排，而是因为那天晚上每一件事都是如此美妙。我吃得饱饱；我有好友相伴；我知道我的生活事事顺利；我感受到神对我的祝福。
耶稣望着整天领受祂的教导的群众，祂知道他们饿了，他们饥饿需要食物，但我相信他们更饥渴明白生命的目标和意义，于是耶稣便给他们吃饱——完全的饱足。祂把小量的饼和鱼变为足以喂饱一大群人的食物。除此以外，祂更以惟有从祂那里才能得到的永远生命之粮，来满足他们的需要。
耶稣赐的食粮，是唯一能永远保守我们信心的食粮：就是来自祂的同在、使命、和话语的丰盛生命。如果我们尝试用别的东西来填满我们的心，我们必定会再饥饿的；然而，如果我们吃从神而来的食粮，我们便必得饱足了。
神啊，求祢以从祢儿子而来的生命之粮喂养我们，好叫我们能永远饱足。奉祂的名祈求，阿们。
路加福音 9:10-17
10 使徒回来，将所做的事告诉耶稣。耶稣就带他们暗暗地离开那里，往一座城去，那城名叫伯赛大。
11 但众人知道了，就跟着他去。耶稣便接待他们，对他们讲论神国的道，医治那些需医的人。
12 日头快要平西，十二个门徒来对他说：“请叫众人散开，他们好往四面乡村里去借宿找吃的，因为我们这里是野地。”
13 耶稣说：“你们给他们吃吧！”门徒说：“我们不过有五个饼、两条鱼，若不去为这许多人买食物就不够。”
14 那时人数约有五千。耶稣对门徒说：“叫他们一排一排地坐下，每排大约五十个人。”
15 门徒就如此行，叫众人都坐下。
16 耶稣拿着这五个饼、两条鱼，望着天祝福，掰开，递给门徒，摆在众人面前。
17 他们就吃，并且都吃饱了。把剩下的零碎收拾起来，装满了十二篮子。
They all ate and were satisfied. . . . — Luke 9:17
I can remember the best meal I ever ate. My wife and I went out for a nice dinner to a fine restaurant with close friends. My steak melted like butter in my mouth. We laughed and talked about life and ministry and whatever else came to mind. We enjoyed everything about that evening so much—the food, the company, the setting, the emotions.
I remember leaving that meal totally satisfied—not just because I had enjoyed an incredible steak but also because everything about that night was amazing. I was full; I had amazing companions; I knew I was in the right place in my life; I felt blessed by God.
Jesus looked out over the crowd he had been teaching all day and knew that they were hungry. They were hungry for physical food, but I think they were even more hungry for purpose and meaning. So Jesus fed them—completely. He stretched a few loaves and fish far enough to feed a massive crowd. But even more, he satisfied their need for the sustaining bread of life that comes only through him.
The only food that sustains our faith forever is the food that Jesus gives: the fullness of life that comes through his presence and mission and Word in our life. If we try to fill up on anything else, we will be hungry again. But if we fill ourselves with the bread that comes from God, we will be satisfied.
Father, feed us with the bread of life that comes from your Son so that we will always be satisfied. In his name, Amen.
诵读: 楚云
片头: 张妙阳
