John
6:60-69
Many of
Jesus' disciples who were listening said, "This saying is hard; who can
accept it?" Since Jesus knew that his disciples were murmuring about this,
he said to them, "Does this shock you? What if you were to see the Son of Man
ascending to where he was before? It is the spirit that gives life, while the
flesh is of no avail. The words I have spoken to you are Spirit and life. But
there are some of you who do not believe." Jesus knew from the beginning
the ones who would not believe and the one who would betray him. And he said,
"For this reason I have told you that no one can come to me unless it is
granted him by my Father."
As a
result of this, many of his disciples returned to their former way of life and
no longer accompanied him. Jesus then said to the Twelve, "Do you also
want to leave?" Simon Peter answered him, "Master, to whom shall we
go? You have the words of eternal life. We have come to believe and are
convinced that you are the Holy One of God."
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Reflection:
What
should be our guiding principle if we decide to follow Jesus? It must always be
forever, we will not only follow Jesus in good times we must also learn to
follow Jesus in our most trying times.
We will stay with Jesus even if it’s hard to believe that He is
comforting us in the midst of our sufferings and tribulations.
The very
large crowd (More than five thousand of them) who were with Jesus when He
multiplied the loaves and fish suddenly became very few. Only the twelve
apostles remained many of those who followed Him returned to their former way
of life. Why? Because they couldn’t accept Jesus’ continuous insistence that He
is the true bread of life that whoever believes in Him will never hunger and
thirst (John 6:35).
They
rapidly had amnesia because they all of a sudden forgot that it was Jesus who
feed them when they were all hungry. It was Jesus who healed them when they
were sick and it was Jesus who gave them hope when they were hopeless.
Such is
the behavior of many of us, we quickly question or even leave Jesus when we go
through trials. We never remember or perhaps we purposely forget the many
blessings that He had given us in the past.
Let us
never leave Jesus no matter how difficult our present circumstances are right
now. Let us always choose to be with Him in sickness and in health, in our good
times as well as in our difficult times.
What are
we going to do if we leave Jesus, we embrace the devil and its worldly
teachings? – Marino J. Dasmarinas
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