Thoughts for another day

October 25, 2010

Today's verse: Jn. 6:68. Then Simon Peter answered him, Lord, to whom shall we go? thou hast the words of eternal life. (KJV)

(Pls. read the above before you read further. Thanks)

These Words in the mouth of Simon Peter are probably the most profound Words in the Bible.  Profound when understood in the depth of the sentence, forgoing a surface understanding of the Scripture; which is what we do most of the time and tend to follow what we understand and therefore lead erroneous lives before God.

Jesus talks about Him being the Bread from heaven and says that unless we eat His body and drink His blood we do not have life within us.  At this saying, many people are scandalized and leave Him saying, this saying is hard who can accept it, thinking probably, who wants to be a cannibal!  Because they understand what Jesus says at the surface level, which is the human level and therefore lower than the level of God.  They look at eating Jesus body and drinking His blood thinking of how difficult it would be for them to do that and hence leave Him.  Whereas for Peter this saying of Jesus sparks a new enlightenment which proclaims loudly that Jesus is the One in whom is eternal life and there is nothing else apart from that which can signify life.

Christian living is fraught with dangers of misunderstanding and wrong interpretation whereby many Christians are at the threshold of leaving the faith or in ignorance (which is not bliss).  I've heard about many so called individuals who have left the faith to follow other 'gods' and I reckon it's simply because of their inability to understand God.  On the contrary most people who understand Christianity well ,will always join the band of Christ not move away from it because it is the only way which suggests that man be completely dependent on God whereas the others do not even by far suggest this simply because they do not have the nature of God as they aren't God.  This reflection is too small a forum to explain this, but it would be sufficient for me to say that sitting in the presence of God and asking His Holy Spirit to enlighten our minds would enable us also to echo Peter's saying, "Lord You alone have the Words of eternal life."