John 6:28-29
Then they asked him, “What must we do to do the works God requires?”
Jesus answered, “The work of God is this: to believe in the one he has sent.”
Let me tell you about two facts that became really evident to me today. Fact #1—My parking spot at work is slightly on an incline. Fact #2—Rain water is really cold.
You may be thinking…“ok”. These facts have nothing to do with each other as they are completely unrelated. Well let me explain how these two statements do go together and are significant to me at certain times.
It poured down rain this afternoon right before I left work. When I got into my car to leave and began driving, cold water poured down on my head and down my back. I got soaked! I screamed out and stopped driving. A little frustrated, not able to do anything about being wet, I continued to drive with periodic bursts of water pouring out on me for a few minutes.
You see, what happened is that today at work, I didn’t pull all the way up in my parking spot, thus my car was on more of an incline than usual. When it rained really hard, the water went into the sun roof without draining out properly. Therefore, when I started driving and my car leveled out, the raging water moved towards the front of the car and thus resulted in the waterfall on my head and thus why more water would come as I drove down hills.
As I’ve been reading through the book of John for Sunday School, I come across two facts in chapter 6 that are very significant for everyone. Fact #1—God draws people to Himself and Fact #2—Man must accept Jesus as Lord and believe in order to have eternal life.
You may ask me, “How do these two facts in the Bible correlate to each other?” Unlike understanding how my car poured cold water on myself, I would say to this question, “I don’t know.” I can’t explain how God does the drawing and chooses, yet, we have free will. All I can do is read what the Bible says and praise God that I serve such a powerful and just God.
Vs: 39-40—“And this is the will of him who sent me, that I shall lose none of all those he has given me, but raise them up at the last day. For my Father’s will is that everyone who looks to the Son and believes in him shall have eternal life, and I will raise them up at the last day.”
Here we see that God has given and chosen men; however, everyone who looks to the Son and believes shall have eternal life. It is further clarified with vs 44, “No one can come to me unless the Father who sent me draws them, and I will raise them up at the last day.”
Just because it is hard to comprehend and beyond our understanding, let’s not question or debate it, but accept the truth of God’s Word with faith.
-RB
John 6:64-65
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.”
DPOD 