- After this many of his disciples turned back and no longer walked with him. John 6:66 – Sometimes the words we hear from God are hard to follow. Yet the question really isn’t how hard are the words, it’s will you follow them regardless? Of course, when we hear things like come to me and rest, we can easily get behind that. Yet what about letting go of what so easily entangles us or to show love to those that hurt us or even to let go of the anger we’ve held against someone for so long? That’s just the beginning, some of the things God asks us costs much more than that and are even heavier to accept. Yet the question remains, will you follow where He leads regardless of how hard the word is? Don’t wait to make up your mind to that question until the difficult command is right in front of you. Settle now that whatever He says goes in your story. His path is your path, even if it’s a path rougher than you ever imagined. Take courage knowing that no matter how rough it may get, when He’s in the boat with you, you’ll always get to where you need to be. (See proof of that in verse 21). I love you, but Jesus loves you more – Mac – Daily DEVO 1398
- For my flesh is true food, and my blood is true drink. 56 Whoever feeds on my flesh and drinks my blood abides in me, and I in him.57 As the living Father sent me, and I live because of the Father, so whoever feeds on me, he also will live because of me. 58 This is the bread that came down from heaven, not like the bread the fathers ate, and died. Whoever feeds on this bread will live forever.” John 6:55-58 – For us who exist post-crucifixion and post-resurrection, we understand far better what Jesus was speaking of in this passage than those listening in His day. If we were to take His words as a straightforward command to literally begin eating His flesh and blood, that would be a hard and confusing message to hear from the one we are following. We though know Jesus is speaking of spiritual, eternal life, not ending our fleshly hunger with His literal flesh. If we then were to feed on what Jesus offers us, His death and resurrection, making those things the very things we trust our life in, there we will find life and find ourselves abiding with God. To say this even more plainly, make Jesus the source of your pursuit of your needs. For peace, look to Jesus. For direction, look to Jesus. For salvation, look to Jesus. Feed on Him, consume only Him in your life and no more of the junk of the world. And when we find ourselves finally only taking in our Savior, and no longer taking in the things of this world, there we find the satisfying of our souls that we are longing for. Jesus alone is more than enough to fill us up within this life, we don’t need a side order of the world to sustain us. If then you have been feeling empty in life, ask yourself, what have you been filling yourself up with? I love you, but Jesus loves you more – Mac – Daily DEVO 2756
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