Food is a basic need of mankind. Every man eats food to live. No one can survive a long period of time without food; the human body is designed to be sustained with food.
Sadly, food can only sustain the man as long as he lives. A dead person has no need for food. In others words, the importance of food is dependent on life: if there’s no life, there’s no need for food.
Food does not give life; it only aid life. Food does not have the ability to make a dead person alive. A dead person has no need for food.
As important as food is to man, it is useless in his death.
But Jesus is the food that endures forever. Jesus is the food of the spirit. As our flesh need physical foods to sustain it, so our spirit need spiritual food for its sustenance.
The Bible says that man shall not live by bread alone but by every Word that proceeds from the mouth of God. Jesus is the Word of God. He came that man should have eternal life.
Every man need eternal life because it is the life that cannot perish. Eternal Life is the life of God. It is the supernatural life; without eternal life, man is condemned to death.
Therefore, rather than laboring for the food (physical) that cannot give life; food that has no eternal relevance; food that is useless at death: man should desire and seek the food that gives life; food that have eternal value and food that endures forever – And that Food is Jesus Christ.