Monday :: October 22 :: John 6

Had the great priviledge to read this chapter with my wife ... thanks Tammy!

This is also one of my favorite chapters of my favorite Gospels.

Outside of healings and such, Jesus really takes the depth of His diety to a new level. Feeding 5,000+ with barely enough food for one small boy was amazing. Walking on the surface of the water - crazy cool. Now Jesus is the "new rage" and the paparazzi are after Him. He's followed across the lake and people are pressing him about leaving ... His response? He says, "you only care about this because of the cool miracles ... not because of the meaning behind them." Is that a great response. Fame isn't something men handle well. It builds our ego too quickly or something. The fame didn't even phase Christ - He understood its magnitude and its deception. "Search for eternal life," he said instead of getting wrapped up in these miraculous things.

60 Many of his disciples said, “This is very hard to understand. How can anyone accept it?”
How true is this ... many people fall away from very sound teaching today because it's tough.
> It intrudes on their personal wants and desires
> It means that they can't have all the pleasures of the world
> It means that they have to serve and not be served
> It means that they have to put others before themselves
> It means that they have love their enemies instead of seek revenge upon them
> It means they see things from a different perspective than the rest of the world
> and this list could be really long!

Let's answer the question these followers asked of themselves this day ... "only by the grace of God are we able to understand any of this!" And I for one, need lots more of it!!