August 18, 2021

“So Jesus asked the twelve, “Do you also wish to go away?” Simon Peter answered him, “Lord, to whom can we go? You have the words of eternal life. We have come to believe and know that you are the Holy One of God.” (John 6: 68-69)

After a particularly difficult to swallow teaching, many of those listening to Jesus said enough is enough – this guy is nuts. (The teaching in question was literally difficult to swallow: “Those who eat my flesh and drink my blood abide in me, and I in them. Just as the living Father sent me, and I live because of the Father, so whoever eats me will live because of me.”) 

Peter’s response to Jesus’ question is one of the great lines of Scripture, one I return to again and again. Lord, to whom can we go? We may not understand all that Jesus says or does, but one thing is sure – you will not find His brand of grace anywhere else in this world. And only He fulfills and satisfies you in your truest nature.

“Gracious Father, whose blessed Son Jesus Christ came down from heaven to be the true bread which gives life to the world: Evermore give us this bread, that he may live in us, and we in him; who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit, one God, now and for ever. Amen.” (Fourth Sunday in Lent – BCP p. 219)