"Your faith is growing abundantly, and the love of every one of you for one another is increasing." - 2 Thessalonians 1:3b

Thursday, October 18, 2012

The Defining Moment

by Diana Durrill 

Today's Reading:  John 6
Aware that his disciples were grumbling about this, Jesus said to them, "Does this offend you? What if you see the Son of Man ascend to where he was before?"  - John 6:61-62
We believe and know that you are the Holy One of God." John 6:69 
The disciples are caught in an incredibly uncomfortable position.  They have just commented amongst themselves that what Jesus was teaching was a hard thing to hear.  And truly, it was!  

This is a defining moment for the disciples.  They can either turn and leave as all the others do, or they can put all they have into this man and who he claims to be.

Peter, with every last bit of courage he can muster, makes this life-changing statement that Jesus is "the Christ, the Son of the living God."

His life will never be the same.

Each who chooses to follow Jesus closely, stating that He is the Holy One of God, will come to a defining moment moment, a crossroad where we will choose to either follow the crowd or follow Jesus.





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