With Just a Little

John 6 talks about how Jesus fed five thousand people. There are lots of things I like about this chapter, but today one things sticks out. Jesus could have produced food out of thin air, but he used what a boy offered to him (five small loaves and two small fish). Why do I like this so much?
--Kids were looked down on . . . Jesus elevates those that the world casts aside.
--The boy didn't have much, but gave all he had to Jesus . . . Jesus used that to do a great work. I think this is what the kingdom is like, none of us possesses much, but if we give what we have to God He can do a great work out of it.

Again later in the chapter we see great focus on receiving eternal life. Only one thing, vs 40, "For my Father's will is that everyone who looks to the Son and believes in him shall have eternal life, and I will raise him up on the last day." That it is present tense. Eternal life is to be had and lived now, in fact the additional reference to the "last day" makes it sound like the emphasis of eternal life is now, not later. A state of living through belief in Christ. It doesn't seem like Jesus is talking about going on and on forever when you die here, but living in a way that brings life to the full.