This is the same very large group of people who were fed from five loaves and two fishes. They had just witnessed a miracle or sign. They demanded more and many turned away from Him because they didn't like His responses to their demands. Humanity has a long-proven track record of forgetting God's miracles even soon after they had witnessed them. Ten stayed true, almost to the end and then were very quickly regathered after Jesus' death on the cross. Only four of His followers were at the cross, John and three women named Mary. (John 19:25-26) Superficial faith has no lasting value. If our faith is true, we should want to deepen it, continually. If we truly love God, we should continuously seek and desire Him and not just for what He might give to us. Jesus has already sacrificed Himself and defeated death on our behalf. What more should we want from Him? Should we not want to give our lives, in humble gratitude, in response? That is all He asks of us - but does not make demands. We know that the worker that begins at the end of the day gets paid his full wages (Matthew 20:1-16) and that the thief on the cross has found Paradise. (Luke 23:43)
John 6:30 "So they asked him, "What sign then will you give that we may see it and believe you? What will you do?" (NIV)
This is the same very large group of people who were fed from five loaves and two fishes. They had just witnessed a miracle or sign. They demanded more and many turned away from Him because they didn't like His responses to their demands. Humanity has a long-proven track record of forgetting God's miracles even soon after they had witnessed them. Ten stayed true, almost to the end and then were very quickly regathered after Jesus' death on the cross. Only four of His followers were at the cross, John and three women named Mary. (John 19:25-26) Superficial faith has no lasting value. If our faith is true, we should want to deepen it, continually. If we truly love God, we should continuously seek and desire Him and not just for what He might give to us. Jesus has already sacrificed Himself and defeated death on our behalf. What more should we want from Him? Should we not want to give our lives, in humble gratitude, in response? That is all He asks of us - but does not make demands. We know that the worker that begins at the end of the day gets paid his full wages (Matthew 20:1-16) and that the thief on the cross has found Paradise. (Luke 23:43)
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