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HIS ACTIONS<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

\u201cThese things He said in the synagogue as He taught in Capernaum. Therefore many of His disciples, when they heard this, said, \u2018This is a hard saying; who can understand it?\u2019\u201d<\/em>\u00a0 John 6:59-60<\/p>\n

Hard to Understand<\/strong><\/h2>\n

HIS EXAMPLE TO US<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Jesus had just taught in the synagogue that His flesh was food and His blood was drink, and that people had to eat and drink Him if they wanted to abide in Him, and even implicitly said, \u201cHe who feeds on Me will live because of Me\u201d<\/em> (John 6:55-57). This was impossible for the disciples\u2014not just the 12, but many others who were His followers\u2014to understand and accept. Jesus often taught new, strange ideas to those who would listen; His kingdom wasn\u2019t what the people wanted, and He did not meet their expectations. Many people walked out on Him.<\/p>\n

Jesus really did teach and model a life very different from what the people were used to, and this often made them deaf to what He was saying. They just \u201cknew\u201d He was wrong in what He was saying. Why, He was ungodly! He had a demon! He was a friend of sinners! He was a winebibber and a glutton! Why should they listen to this Man\u2014He was messing with their minds!<\/p>\n

MY STORY<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

I have often had to sit under the teaching of those whose words were hard to understand, and whose ideas I dismissed because they were too weird or too academically advanced. In many cases, my mind was already made up as they spoke, such as when a scientist at my university would expound on evolution. At other times, the teaching seemed like a foreign language to me, because the professor was the author of the textbook we were using in his class, and he couldn\u2019t simplify it enough to be understood. I ended up dropping classes or walking out on lectures and seminars.<\/p>\n

MY RESPONSE<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

I embrace the teachings of Jesus, no matter how \u201cout there\u201d they seem, no matter how uncomfortable they make me, no matter what it requires of me. Jesus was not of this world. He was from above, sent by the Father. Naturally, the sinless life He lived as an example to us is going to look very different than our own earthbound, time-and space-bound, flesh-bound lives will look. I must realize that my NEW LIFE in Him is not going to look like my old life. We have much to learn from our Lord and Savior about kingdom living, so we purpose to keep reading and studying His Word, praying, and staying in fellowship with the believers.<\/p>\n

MY PRAYER<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

\u201cFather, we see a vast gulf between the life we know and the life Jesus lived out as an example. May we not tune out His Words just because they are hard to understand; we press in and stay put until You open our blind eyes and deaf ears. In Jesus\u2019 Name, Amen.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>

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