God Still Speaks

It seems hard for me to understand how people could walk away from Jesus. I see here one reason; to follow Jesus requires committment. It requires eating His flesh and drinking His blood, not literally of course. To eat means to ingest, to partake of, eat something that becomes a part of you. Jesus wants to become one with us. To be united with us. There are people who get offended of the idea of being committed to Jesus and to do His will in their lives. As long as it is convenient for us to walk with Christ we do so, but as soon as serving him requires sacrifice, its a different story. It must of been a blow for Jesus to see some of his disciples turn away. It still must break his heart when his children today do the same. It's easy to follow him when there is no committment required. But as soon as He asks from us our time, money, talents and life it's just as easy for us to walk away. Peter though understood committment, (at least on this day) because when asked if he too were to walk away, He understood that there really is no place to run to, that Jesus has the words of eternal life. If committment is causing you to think twice about walking with Jesus or not, remember the old song that says. "where could I go but to the Lord."