Jesus is at the
top of his popularity level. He’s
teaching with authority, he’s healing the sick, bringing dead people back to
life, challenging the religious authorities- he’s wildly popular. But then he begins to have some strange
talks- things like people having to eat his flesh and drink his blood- pointing
to his death on the cross- as essential to following him and it gets too hard
to follow Jesus. It gets too difficult
to keep following this guy.
Sure, all of
the miracles and easy teachings are great- but when Jesus begins to make me
feel uncomfortable, when he begins to ask something of me, when he begins to
challenge me- well then, that’s where I get off. I’d rather maintain my status quo then risk
looking like some sort of Jesus freak.
You see, there’s always choice involved with following
Jesus. We can choose to leave, to stop
following, to say it’s too difficult to do good in the name of Jesus, or we can
be like Peter and say ‘Lord, to whom would we go?. You have the words that give eternal
life’. We have found the very meaning to
life in you so why would we go elsewhere?
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