The true bread is the flesh of the Lord which he gave for the whole world (John 6.51). Jesus is the daily bread of the soul. God is giver of our daily bread. The Lord Jesus is the health and life to the body for all who believe. Healing is the children’s bread (Mat 15.26). The Lord Jesus is life, peace and joy to our soul. He is the bread from heaven that gives life to all men. He is the vine of life from which all his branches (followers) receive life.
“Give us today our daily bread”, means, “Give us today Jesus” or “Give us today the word of God”. It also means give us food, water, clothing, that our body needs today.
The communion meal is not the living bread, rather it is only a remembrance meal of the real living bread, Jesus. Jesus is the bread that came down from heaven and was given up as sacrifice for the life of the world. The communion bread symbolizes his flesh and the wine symbolizes his shed blood on the cross.
One eats of the flesh of Jesus and drinks his blood when he believes in him and surrenders his life totally to the Lord. The communion is sacred in that it brings a holy fear and revives our spirits when we remember the Lord’s sacrifice on the cross. It is the Spirit of Christ that gives life.