John 6

This scripture has been on my mind a lot lately. Why? I do not know. I have not gotten anything theologically from it that I didn’t already understand. More than anything it just blows my mind. If you fast forward to the verse 25 in the chapter Jesus begins to teach. He teaches all the way up to verse 60. This is what catches my attention. Verse 60; “On hearing it, many of his disciples said, “this is a hard teaching. Who can accept it?”  Jesus then asks if this was offensive to them… crazy right…Jesus offend someone….?… Okay, continue to fast forward to verse 66. It says, “from this time many of his disciples turned back and no longer followed him.”

So to me this is a HUGE WOW! These people were called disciples of Christ, had been following him for who knows how long. Then there came this point…..

….They decided that it was now too hard to follow Christ….

When we are following God, things will get tough

We will be called to do things that are further outside of our comfort zone

He will lead you down roads you never thought you would go, or wanted to go

He will call us to become more disciplined

Call us to lead when we don’t want to

Just because you follow God does not lead to the promise of a wealthy/healthy life

One other thought here…

It is scary to think that people can “follow” Christ so long and be his “disciples” without actually following him and without actually being a disciple. This makes me re-examine myself. I hope I’m not just getting caught up living the “christian” life ? I hope I’m not just following God to a certain point until it gets too hard..?

crazy to think that people can be called disciple, and get to a point where they can no longer follow God.

But it is also scary to look at all of Christ teachings…..they are tough….like real tough.