Decision At A Corner of Life

Thinking on John 6:35-66.....

Does Jesus offend you?  v35-40
Think about this, is He the "stumbling block" to your faith?
Too many hard or harsh teachings for you to just "accept"?
A world filled with suffering and injustice, a Scripture which contradicts culture, most people I meet want a smorgasbord religion!  Give me choices so I can pick what I want to believe!

Ah, but is God, the Father, drawing you?  v41-51
In verses 37, 39, 44 and 65 - it is the Holy Spirit whom is sent to draw to belief.
Consider also Luke 24:16 and 31, where it is again the Holy Spirit's job to open your eyes.

Will you walk away?  v52-59 and 66
People wanted to proclaim Jesus king that day!
But He sort of disagreed with the idea.
From thousands heralding Him - to people fleeing from Him because He was not whom they wanted!

(As a side note think about the impact of seeing thousands fleeing Him when He told them His was a different mission.....  And yet the clueless twelve stayed.....)

So, even as a Christian, you are currently at the corner of Jesus and Culture, which way will you turn?
So many Christians have watered down their Christianity with the values and pursuits of culture and the world.  Net result is that LUKEWARM entity of whom Jesus said He would spew from His mouth.
Personally, I really do not want to be compromised to the point of Jesus harking me out of His body.  And probably like you there are areas of my life where God should be more in the decision making process and control than He is.

And here is the challenge I gave my college aged young men yesterday - Its your faith versus:
Computer Games
Internet Surfing
TV
Movies
Chasing the Opposite Sex
Sports
Watching Sports
Job
School
Car
Friends
"Doing Your Own Thing"

Oh sure they are all fun, in moderation, but I can look at the lives of all of them and see that they all have sold out to culture.  God gets maybe 5% of their time and most of that is in the form of prayer at the dinner table.  I left them with the final idea,

"We have a crafty enemy whom will use all of the desires of the world to draw you away from God.  So, what are you going to do different this week....."