Dearly Beloved,
I have a book entitled, “Your God is too Small.” Everyone has a quote, “god”, in their life whether they believe it or not. The tendency of fallen men, women, boys, and girls is to conjure up a “god” in their imagination. We live in a fallen world and thus our view of the “Real God” is distorted and unreliable.
It was A.W. Tozer I think who said, “The highest and the loftiest thoughts that you will ever think are the thoughts you think about God that are true.” The question that can still haunt us however is, “How do you and I know if our thoughts about God are true?”
Unless God in His mercy choses to reveals Himself – well we remain in the dark, walk in the darkness, and do not have a clue to where we are going.
If you remember when we started our current series called “Believe”, the apostle John wrote, “And the Word became flesh, and dwelt among us; and we saw His glory, glory as of the only Son from the Father, full of grace and truth.” Friends this is crucial because apart from Jesus, we really have no idea if He has any interest in you and me. If Jesus is not God manifest in the flesh, then we have no Savior. We are sinners living without hope.
Earlier in His ministry, the Jews thought that Jesus was going to save His people, and set up His promised earthly kingdom, but as time progressed, there was talk of His death as His teachings became more provocative. Last Sunday Kurt examined Jesus’ command to eat His flesh and to drink of His blood, and this was not easy to understand. It was in this increasing period of uncertainty when certain followers left that the Lord Jesus asked the twelve, “Will you also go away?” Simon Peter answered Him, “Lord, to whom shall we go? You have words of eternal life.” Peter was right, there is nowhere else to go and nothing else that can satisfy the heart of a person separated from God by sin. Christ’s teaching was not difficult to understand, but it was certainly difficult to accept.
This Sunday we will conclude our study in John 6. I encourage you to read and meditate on John 6:59-71. Are you going to walk away from Jesus? Why would we walk away from the transcendent, immutable, unfathomable, omnipotent, omnipresent, incomprehensible, omniscient King of the universe!
Next Saturday, October 29, from 8am-10pm, we’ll be having our Men’s Breakfast. You can sign up online HERE or on the church patio after service at the Men’s Ministry Table.
For Jesus’ sake,
Glen