Today matters. Make it count. Your life matters to someone. It might be a hard day, but who you spend it with, and what you do with these next 24 hours matters. Today is a gift!
John 6:56-69 (NIV) Whoever eats my flesh and drinks my blood remains in me, and I in them. Just as the living Father sent me and I live because of the Father, so the one who feeds on me will live because of me. This is the bread that came down from heaven. Your ancestors ate manna and died, but whoever feeds on this bread will live forever.” He said this while teaching in the synagogue in Capernaum. On hearing it, many of his disciples said, “This is a hard teaching. Who can accept it?” Aware that his disciples were grumbling about this, Jesus said to them, “Does this offend you? Then what if you see the Son of Man ascend to where he was before! The Spirit gives life; the flesh counts for nothing. The words I have spoken to you—they are full of the Spirit[a] and life. Yet there are some of you who do not believe.” For Jesus had known from the beginning which of them did not believe and who would betray him. He went on to say, “This is why I told you that no one can come to me unless the Father has enabled them.” From this time many of his disciples turned back and no longer followed him. “You do not want to leave too, do you?” Jesus asked the Twelve. Simon Peter answered him, “Lord, to whom shall we go? You have the words of eternal life. We have come to believe and to know that you are the Holy One of God.”
John 6:56-69 (NIV) Whoever eats my flesh and drinks my blood remains in me, and I in them. Just as the living Father sent me and I live because of the Father, so the one who feeds on me will live because of me. This is the bread that came down from heaven. Your ancestors ate manna and died, but whoever feeds on this bread will live forever.” He said this while teaching in the synagogue in Capernaum. On hearing it, many of his disciples said, “This is a hard teaching. Who can accept it?” Aware that his disciples were grumbling about this, Jesus said to them, “Does this offend you? Then what if you see the Son of Man ascend to where he was before! The Spirit gives life; the flesh counts for nothing. The words I have spoken to you—they are full of the Spirit[a] and life. Yet there are some of you who do not believe.” For Jesus had known from the beginning which of them did not believe and who would betray him. He went on to say, “This is why I told you that no one can come to me unless the Father has enabled them.” From this time many of his disciples turned back and no longer followed him. “You do not want to leave too, do you?” Jesus asked the Twelve. Simon Peter answered him, “Lord, to whom shall we go? You have the words of eternal life. We have come to believe and to know that you are the Holy One of God.”
It may be a small world, but little things count. Where we go counts. Who we hang out with counts. Our conversation counts. Little things matter. Consider the rudder on a ship as the word of God tells us, and how it turns a huge ship.
One woman praying for another woman's child in her womb matters. People holding hands and praying on the National Day of Prayer counts. Children being taught about the meaning of blowing the Shofar matters. A seed planted in a garden matters, whether it is a flower for the bees to gather nectar or for a family to eat.
In the above scripture, it mattered that Peter decided to stay with Jesus. See, it really is a small world and one persons life can connect us with the life of another person. What one person is able to teach another can change an entire world. Peter knew that Jesus had what he needed to hear. There are people God wants to connect you with so that each of you can be a blessings to one another.
One woman praying for another woman's child in her womb matters. People holding hands and praying on the National Day of Prayer counts. Children being taught about the meaning of blowing the Shofar matters. A seed planted in a garden matters, whether it is a flower for the bees to gather nectar or for a family to eat.
In the above scripture, it mattered that Peter decided to stay with Jesus. See, it really is a small world and one persons life can connect us with the life of another person. What one person is able to teach another can change an entire world. Peter knew that Jesus had what he needed to hear. There are people God wants to connect you with so that each of you can be a blessings to one another.
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