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Jesus answered them (the multitudes) and said, “Truly, truly, I say to you, you seek Me, not because you saw signs, but because you ate of the loaves, and were filled.”
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There is a significant difference between the crowds that were following the Lord for what they were receiving in the natural and the disciples who were being trained by Him, being fed the bread of life! Jesus is telling the mass of people that they were being self-serving, while He was training His disciples in being servants.

A true disciple at his or her core is a believer who learns from the Master as they are being taught to imitate Him with the heartfelt desire to become just like Him. {Eph.5:1}

So, let us therefore call to mind that Jesus said “for even the Son of Man did not come to be served, but to serve.” {Mk.10:45] That truth was also made clear when Jesus, the King of kings and the Lord of lords on the night He gathered with His disciples for the supper and He rose and began to wash the feet of the disciples, a servant’s task. Peter balked at the very idea but learned as the Lord made it perfectly clear saying to them all: “You call Me Teacher and Lord; and you are right, for so I am. If I then, the Lord and the Teacher, washed your feet, you also ought to wash one another’s feet. For I gave you an example that you also should do as I did to you.” {Jn.13:13-15}

We who are disciples have been invited by God’s own word to come with confidence before the throne of grace {Heb.4:16} and to make our requests made known to Him. {Php.4:6} Certainly one prayer should ring out from our hearts as the apostle Paul taught, “Therefore be imitators of God, as beloved children; and walk in love, just as Christ also loved you and gave Himself up for us, an offering and a sacrifice to God as a fragrant aroma.” {Eph.5:1-2}

Don’t let the world and the things of the world take over your prayer life. Remember you do not have to persuade the Lord to be good to you—He proved that on the cross! And, by the way He already knows what you need and will do exceedingly abundantly above what we ask. {Eph.3:20}

Let us close today’s word with a chorus of one of the many songs saying make me more like you Lord—a note to both disciples and to followers who would then choose to be disciples:

“And He summoned the multitude with His disciples, and said to them, ‘If anyone wishes to come after Me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross, and follow Me. For whoever wishes to save his life shall lose it; but whoever loses his life for My sake and the gospel’s shall save it.” (Mark 8:34-35)

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