Rejected

Something to think about.

 

Rejected

 

66 From this time many of his disciples turned back and no longer followed him. 67 “You do not want to leave too, do you?” Jesus asked the Twelve. 68 Simon Peter answered him, “Lord, to whom shall we go? You have the words of eternal life. 69 We have come to believe and to know that you are the Holy One of God.” 70 Then Jesus replied, “Have I not chosen you, the Twelve? Yet one of you is a devil!”John 6:66-70

 

Jesus was rejected to His face. In this verse, it says "many of his disciples."  The inference or deduction I get is, much more rejected Him than the twelve that didn't. It is imperative for us to realize that not everyone is going to respond to Jesus. If this verse is a sign of a broader reality, we must come to the understanding that many will reject Christ. There will be those that upon hearing the word and understanding the word will reject it. For those of us who believe that statement is incomprehensible. How could anyone in their right mind deny Christ? Since we know, there is nothing, no one better. We know and believe with total confidence and expectation the promises of salvation and eternal life. We believe in restoration, reconciliation, rebirth and new life. We believe in the grace, redemption, and forgiveness of God.  Furthermore, we accept and expect all Gods promises to be fulfilled. We know that the God of creation through His Son Jesus has provided for our eternal life with Him in heaven. We can't understand how anyone can reject Him. 

 

Jesus does something here we need to become aware of. He does not turn and chase those who reject Him. He turned to the twelve who recognized Him for who He was and changed the world with those twelve. As the family of God and as individuals we need to stop chasing rejects and embrace those who God has chosen.  We need to seek and find the chosen.

 

There are two important gems in this section of Scripture. One is your uniqueness in accepting and understanding the call of God. Many hearing and understanding will never accept the reality of Christ. You are special for you have heard and accepted His sacrifice for your life. Two and most importantly are, God chose you. As He chose the twelve, He chose you. You are the preferred of God. We need to start acting like it. You are exalted above the rest of humanity because He chose you. The rest of mankind will not sit at the wedding feast of the lamb.

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Breathed in us.

Something to think about.

Breathed in us.  

7 then the Lord God formed the man of dust from the ground and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life, and the man became a living creature. Genesis 2:7
 
When God created man from the dust of the ground, he formed him with a perfect body. Man after his creation did not have life.  In verse 7 it very clearly states "breathed into his nostrils the breath of life" Adam came to life, not by an electrical impulse or a chemical process but by the living breath of God.  Which is consistent with verse 26 in chapter 1 of Genesis ²⁶ Then God said, “Let us make man in our image, after our likeness."   For us to be His likeness, we have to be endowed with some of His attributes. One of His attributes is immortality. For us to be endowed with his likeness, we must be immortal.  

The interesting thing about verse 7 is the word breath, do you think God breathes? The obvious answer is no. If he needed to breathe, he would be subject to oxygen which did not exist until he created it. And if he created that which he is dependent upon how could he have created it?     
 
 This "breathing" for lack of a better word means something entirely different from what we normally associate with breath. The breath of God turned a lifeless perfectly formed body into and eternal being. What God did when He breathed into man was not just start him breathing or jumpstart his heart.  He did not just bring life to humanity he extended immortality from Himself to us.  You are special because out of all the life which exists on this planet you are the only life that has the eternal breath of God in you.
 

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