Spiritual nourishment and strength comes from knowing Jesus, His love and forgiveness, and growing in our relationship with Him. If Jesus can provide for our physical nourishment, how much more, as the Son of God, can He provide for our spiritual nourishment. Jesus showed He could provide for the crowd’s physical needs when they were hungry, by producing an abundance of food, with leftovers, feeding thousands, all from five loaves and two fish. Just as physical bread sustains us physically, Jesus, the Bread of Life promises to sustain us spiritually. Whoever comes to me will not be hungry, and whoever believes in me will never be thirsty. Jesus said to them, “I am the bread of life. Let’s take a closer look at each of the seven ‘I AM’ declarations of Jesus. The declarations not only tell us who Jesus is, His character and purpose, but it also affirms His status as God Himself and His work in the lives of His people. Throughout the Gospel of John there are seven other times that Jesus uses the ‘I AM’ statement about Himself. “Most certainly, I tell you, before Abraham came into existence, I AM”. In John 8:58, Jesus made a statement about Himself to the Jewish people, it was a very profound statement as He not only claims His existence before Abraham some 2000 years previous, but also as He equates Himself with God in His reference to Exodus 3:14. ‘I AM’ is a clear declaration, a statement of who God is.
God said to Moses, “I AM WHO I AM,” and he said, “You shall tell the children of Israel this: ‘I AM has sent me to you.’” Moses said to God, “Behold, when I come to the children of Israel, and tell them, ‘The God of your fathers has sent me to you,’ and they ask me, ‘What is his name?’ what should I tell them?” Our first introduction to God as ‘I AM’ is when He spoke with Moses in Exodus 3:13-14.
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