“WHO CAN LISTEN TO IT?”

 John 6:59-65                             (ESV)

“[59] JESUS said these things in the synagogue, as HE taught at Capernaum.

[60] When many of HIS disciples heard it, they said, “This is a hard saying; “WHO CAN LISTEN TO IT”?” [61] But JESUS, knowing in HIMSELF that HIS disciples were grumbling about this, said to them, “DO YOU TAKE OFFENSE AT THIS? [62] Then what if you were to see the SON of MAN ascending to where HE was before? [63] It is the SPIRIT WHO gives life; the flesh is NO HELP AT ALL. The words that I have spoken to you are SPIRIT and LIFE. [64] But there are some of you who do not believe.” (For JESUS KNEW FROM THE BEGINNING WHO THOSE WERE WHO DID NOT BELIEVE, and who it was who would betray HIM.) [65] And HE said, “This is why I told you that no one can come to ME unless it is granted him by the FATHER.”

JESUS spoke TRUTH!  It isn’t hard to imagine that “this world” found HIS talks to be hard to swallow!  But even HIS disciples said after hearing JESUS speak “WHO CAN LISTEN TO IT”?  Keep in mind, they were yet to have the HOLY SPIRIT indwelling them, so it should be understood that they didn’t have the same RUDDER that we do post Pentecost.  But HIS own disciples were unable to grasp HEAVENLY things UNTIL the HOLY SPIRIT “revealed” to them TRUTH!!!

As Believers, we are BLESSED to have the HOLY SPIRIT living inside of us.  However the typical Believer fails to acknowledge that ALMIGHTY GOD, through the HOLY SPIRIT, indwells a wretch such as me?  We COULD HAVE the CREATOR OF THE UNIVERSES guiding our lives, but some choose to “follow our own hearts” and do “what seems best” instead?  

Like the disciples in John 6:60, at times our actions display “WHO CAN LISTEN TO IT” without saying it!  Do our actions display a lack of FAITH that GOD lives within us?  Do the words we speak reveal the kind of FAITH that THE CREATOR likes within us?  Who do others SEE living inside of me???

“WHO CAN LISTEN TO IT” doesn’t need to be my question, but I need to be one who tells everyone I am led to what JESUS and the HOLY SPIRIT have done for me!  For me, the most effective way to HEAR from GOD is to BE STILL, then I can KNOW THAT HE IS GOD!!!!