I wrote a little yesterday about how I tend to not be able to leave well enough alone and tend to not be satisfied.  Always pushing, pulling, trying, always up to something.

Today’s reflection spoke to me again about something I tend to do.

I’m a “get the job done” type of person. I tend to have my list, my schedule, my tasks for the day, week, month, and year, and I tend to attack it. I tend to want to get it done and move on.

I have my priorities that move through.

Today’ we read this passage in John’s Gospel:

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, “Very truly, I tell you, you are looking for 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 for eternal life, which the Son of Man will give you. For it is on him that God the Father has set his seal.”

Jesus again talks about being satisfied with Him, and Him alone, but also makes a point. He said they were looking for Him not because of the things that He was doing, but they were looking for Him because of what they could get out of Him.

They were looking for Him to get what they want. They were looking for Him for their stuff.

That brings the question, why do we follow?  Why are faithful?

In short, is Jesus enough for us?  For the folks that were following Jesus today, they wanted more out of it than a relationship with Him. They wanted “stuff,” food, whatever.

Their priorities were out-of-place.

How about mine?  Yours?  Where are our priorities? Why do we do what we do?

Life is found only in that relationship with Him. And, in the end, that’s all He has promised us.  Life.  Life eternal.  Life now.  Life forever.

They had their priories in the wrong place.

May we not make that same mistake.