"BELIEVE IN HIM WHOM HE HAS SENT!"

John 6:25-29                           (ESV)

"25 When they found HIM on the other side of the sea, they said to HIM, "Rabbi, when did you come here?"

26 JESUS answered them, "Truly, truly, I say to you, you are seeking ME, not because you saw signs, but because you ate your fill of the loaves.

27 Do not work for the food that perishes, but for the food that endures to eternal life, which the SON of MAN will give to you. For on him GOD the FATHER has set his seal."

28 Then they (the crowd) said to HIM, "What must we do, to be doing the works of GOD?"

29 Jesus answered them, "This is the work of GOD, that you "BELIEVE IN HIM WHOM HE HAS SENT."

Many people go through their lives attempting to be the BEST CHURCH MEMBER that has ever lived, to be "doing the works of GOD"!  They think if they can do the "right things" that GOD will be pleased and grant them entrance into a paradise where everything is grand.  It seems there is a contest going where people attempt to be the BEST CHURCH MEMBER, with being the head of a social club mentality, in order to show how good we are!

GOD's desire isn't for us to see who can be the BEST CHURCH MEMBER, rather to have FAITH that HE is WHO HE says HE is!  We are instructed by JESUS in John 6:29 that you "BELIEVE IN HIM WHOM HE HAS SENT"!  It's not like joining a gym and out performing every one else who has chosen the same gym.  It is simply believing that GOD is WHO HE says HE is, and HE can do what HE claims HE can do, and HE knows the perfect time for HIS will to be accomplished, and that GOD loves me so much HE sent JESUS as a propitiation for my sins!  

In John 6:25 "the crowd" FOUND HIM they wanted to know JESUS because HE had provided their previous desires of food.  But JESUS knew the "thoughts and intentions" (Hebrews 4:12) of their hearts and HE was interested in helping those whose desire was to glorify GOD, not their fleshly gain!  

Although I may never be the BEST CHURCH MEMBER that has ever lived, my goal in this short time I am permitted to walk this earth is to "BELIEVE IN HIM WHOM HE HAS SENT" and to be a witness of the same.  The temporal pleasure of self glorification might last a few days, but when I "BELIEVE IN HIM WHOM HE HAS SENT" people's lives get changed.  My prayer is that many lives will be changed because of what HE has done in, and through, my life!!