We've all been physically hungry to one degree or another.

It's the innate sense of discomfort that prompts us to eat something.

Alastur Begg explains that spiritual hunger is just as real as physical hunger,

and it's also experienced by everyone,

Christians and non-Christians alike. We'll find out what it is and how it's satisfied

today on Truth for Life.

Our scripture reading this morning is from the sixth chapter of John, reading from verse 52 through to verse 59.

I invite you to turn to it and follow along as I read, John chapter 6 and verse 52. The Jews then disputed among themselves,

saying, how can this man give us his flesh to eat? So Jesus said to them truly, truly, I say to you,

unless you eat the flesh of the son of man and drink his blood,

you have no life in you. Whoever feeds on my flesh and drinks my blood has eternal life,

and I will raise him up on the last day. For my flesh is true food and my blood is true drink. Whoever feeds on my flesh and drinks my blood

abides in me and I in him. As the living father sent me and I live because of the father,

so whoever feeds on me, he also will live because of me. This is the bread

that came down from heaven, not like the bread the Father ate and died. Whoever feeds on

this bread will live forever. Jesus said these things in the synagogue, as he taught at Copernium. Thanks be to God

for His Word. Blessed Lord, who has caused all Holy Scripture to be written for our learning,

grant us that we may, in the light of that wisdom, hear them,

read, mark, learn, and inwardly digest them. That by patience and the comfort of your holy word,

we may embrace and ever hold fast the blessed

hope of everlasting life which thou has given us in the Lord Jesus Christ, in whose name we pray. Amen.

That prayer, of course, again, comes from the Anglican prayer book, and it's a very helpful prayer.

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