Walking with Jesus, albeit highly rewarding, is anything but easy.
He is an endless fountain of perfect love and peace, but He is also compelled by that same love to challenge us to reinvent ourselves, to serve and sacrifice on account of our faith.
At the end of John 6, Jesus challenges His followers with words they don’t know how to receive, and many turn away.
Where have God’s challenges and hard truths caused us to turn away, or even just stall out in our faith? Has our experience of the pandemic distanced us from Jesus and the church in the same manner?