Day 9 - John 6:25-71

Jesus is the Bread of Life.

"I tell you the truth, unless you eat the flesh of the Son of Man and drink his blood, you have no life in you." John 6:53

Can you imagine what the people were thinking when Jesus began teaching them about the Bread of Life? Jesus, who had just finished feeding 5000 people using only a couple fish and loaves of bread, and had also just walked almost three miles out on a lake, and who had been doing miraculous things throughout the area just requested that the crowd must eat His flesh in order to 'have life'.

As people who live now 2000 years later, we can understand this in a variety of ways, but imagine living during this time. The questions that came up into peoples minds, and the disgust that most of the people had.

So what happens?

Well, most everyone leaves Jesus, except His disciples.

The twelve.

Jesus questions the twelve as to why they haven't left as well. And Peter responds for the group: "Lord, to whom shall we go? You have the words of eternal life. We believe and know that you are the Holy One of God." (John 6:68-69)

Peter's response is funny because it basically says there isn't anywhere else to go. Jesus was the only place to go.

There was no theological explanation of Jesus' words.

Peter didn't explain the symbols of eating the flesh and blood of Christ.

He simply said You (Jesus) are God and there isn't a better place for us to be.

What do we do when times get tough and we question what God is telling us. What happens when all our life God seems to be X and all of the sudden God is actually Y? How do we cope? Where do we turn?

Peter and the disciples saw that over the course of the last months (or years) Jesus had proven Himself over and over and simply because they didn't understand what was going on at this time, didn't mean it was time to dessert Him like the others. When times get tough. When God seems different than when you first experienced Him, don't search elsewhere. Don't get hung up on explaining the theological complexity. Stay and listen to what God is telling you because of the long line of times He amazed you in the past.