Faith as the Work God Demands of Us

Christ's feeding of the five thousand produced the wrong kind of devotion. The crowds, seeing their bellies filled, wanted to make Him king—a prophet useful for material provision. Yet Jesus deliberately escaped this 'inconvenient enthusiasm' and redirected their longing toward an invisible bread. When they asked, 'What must we do that we may work the works of God?' —a question blending right intention with profound confusion—Christ answered with startling clarity: 'This is the work of God, that ye believe on Him whom He hath sent.'…