"To Stay or Go?"

To Stay or Go…
Would you also go away?

This question, Jesus asked

to Peter who was close to Him

in this the three years past.

Some had found the road too hard

and quietly walked away.

Jesus asked those close to Him

if they too would go away.

Peter replied “But where to go?

It’s You who have the words,

eternal life is from your mouth

the way You show us, clear.”

In days to come it would be shown

that Peter too would flee

denying the knowledge of the one

they would nail up to a tree.

But it would prove he’d come around

and tell his Greatest Friend

“I’ll tell the world of all You’ve taught

from now until my end.”

This he did, we have the words

in letters he would leave.

He spread the teaching of his Christ

till he also hung from a tree.

Fiona Monaghan

3-10-10

"Will ye also go away?" John 6:67

A penetrating question. Our Lord's words come home most when He talks in the most simple way. We know who Jesus is, but in spite of that He says - "Will ye also go away?"We have to maintain a venturing attitude toward Him all the time. (From Oswald Chambers My Utmost for His Highest March 9, 2010)

From that time many of His disciples went back, and walked no more with Him." They went back from walking with Jesus, not into sin, but they relapsed. Many today are spending and being spent in work for Jesus Christ, but they do not walk with Him. The one thing God keeps us to steadily is that we may be one with Jesus Christ. After sanctification the discipline of our spiritual life is along this line. If God gives a clear and emphatic realization to your soul of what He wants, do not try to keep yourself in that relationship by any particular method, but live a natural life of absolute dependence on Jesus Christ. Never try to live the life with God on any other line than God's line, and that line is absolute devotion to Him. The certainty that “I do not know” - that is the secret of going with Jesus.

Peter only saw in Jesus someone to minister salvation to him and to the world. Our Lord wants us to be yoke-fellows with Him.

v. 70. Jesus answers the great lack in Peter. We cannot answer for others.