A New Kind of Work

It�s not a question of something bad and something good.  It�s a question of a good and a better. 

Food��perishable� food or food �that remains unto life eternal.�  Even though food may be �perishable,� it�s still something good, something we need to survive.  But there�s a �better food��food that lasts.  Jesus slowly enters into a discussion with the crowd following him, a discussion that will lead to his astonishing revelation about the nature of this �better food.� 

We know how to work for perishable food.  Forty hours a week or more, we know how to earn all that we need to survive.  Jesus suggests that there is another kind of work with another kind of food:  work for �food that remains unto life eternal,� he says.  It�s not a question of survival, but of really living.

How to work for this new food?  Will this new work be forty more hours?  Will it wear us out?  Something more�to do?

Then comes the strange revelation:  �This is the work of God:  have faith in the One whom he sent.�  Believing in Jesus:  that�s the �work� that gives us the �food� that brings life.  A truly refreshing work with instant pay!

A better food with less work.  Sounds like a good deal to me!