Where Else Could I Go

John 6:66-67, “From that time many of his disciples went back, and walked no more with him. Then said Jesus unto the twelve, Will ye also go away?”


As we read yesterday, Christ was humbly asking His beloved disciples if they would also leave Him, as the mere religious crowd had left Him. The standard is set too high for any human being to reach on his own, but times like these is what separates the religious from the spiritual. Then a question was asked us also, although this standard of walking with Christ is set too high for us to reach on our own, we can so gently hear the loving words of Jesus ask, “Will ye leave me also? Will you walk away from me when you come to the place where I set the level to high for you to reach in yourself? Will you with the religious crowd, simply forsake me truly, and just go through the motions? Or will you just totally walk away and live in your own sinful world openly? Will you be like the majority, beloved? Will you leave me also?”

Dealing with that question of Christ that I felt Him speak to my soul so tenderly, I would now like to respond back openly, as I hope some of you have also.

“Jesus, I do love you. I pray you see that I don’t desire to live just a mere religious life as the majority, but I desire to jump this high standard, and move into the spiritual with you. But I realize I simply cannot in myself, Lord. I pray you bring me to this mark Jesus. I say as Peter did on that day you asked him with the twelve, “will ye go also.” Let his answer be my answer also. “Lord, to whom shall I go? thou hast the words of eternal life. And I believe and am sure that thou art that Christ, the Son of the living God.” John 6:68-69 (paraphrasing). Lord I cant walk away from you as the others! I simply cannot! For I have no other place to go! You are all I know. You are all I love. You are my life! I love you, and if I turned back with the crowd, I would die just a mere religious fisherman of the flesh. I know the standard is too high for me to reach in my own self. I know you have set the level too high for me to reach. I know with men this is impossible, but I read where you tell me, all things are possible with, and through you. So live or die, I am yours! For where else could I go to? Where else could I go, other than closer to you? Blessed be your name forever, …amen.”

Beloved, if you was to turn away… where else will you go? To leave Christ is equal with death itself. Where will you go? Will you move in closer to Him, but by His strength? Or will you walk away with the religious crowd and die a thousand deaths on earth? You choose… where will you go?