March 25, forever satisfied.

I am the bread of life.

Whoever comes to me shall not hunger, and whoever believes in me shall never thirst.

John 635.

This text points to the fact that believing in Jesus is a feeding and drinking from all that Jesus is.

It goes so far as to say that our soul thirst is satisfied with Jesus so that we don't thirst anymore. He's the end of our quest

for satisfaction. There is nothing beyond and nothing better. When we trust Jesus the way John

intends for us to, the presence and promise of Jesus is so satisfying

that we are not dominated by the alluring pleasures of sin. See Romans 614. This accounts for why

such faith in Jesus nullifies the power of sin and enables obedience.

John 414 points in the same direction.

Whoever drinks of the water that I will give him will never be thirsty again. The water that I will give him

will become in him a spring of water welling up to eternal life. In accord with John 635,

saving faith is spoken of here as a drinking of water that satisfies the deepest

longings of the soul. And the satisfaction becomes productive, like a well overflowing.

It's the same as John 7, 37, and 38. Jesus stood up and cried out,

if anyone thirsts, let him come to me and drink. Whoever believes in me, as the scripture has said,

out of his heart will flow rivers of living water.

Through faith, Christ becomes in us an inexhaustible fountain of satisfying life that lasts forever and leads to heaven and on the way sets us free from the sinful illusions of other

satisfactions. This he does by sending us His Spirit, John 7, 38, and 39.