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Orland Evangelical Free Church | To Whom Shall We Go?

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To Whom Shall We Go?

Everything went right. I zipped through my errands and was headed home early. Cruising down the rural highway crooning to Alison Durham, I felt filled with the Holy Spirit. Life was good - until five minutes later.

Suddenly a sea of red rolled toward me. I stood on my brakes. Screeeeeeech...the SUV loomed ahead. The world began spinning in slow motion. I swerved to the left. Was it enough? Careening down the road I wondered, "Why isn't the car stopping? I'm going to hit." Crrrrrrrunch...the SUV vanished as the hood accordioned to the windshield. Hisssssssss. I sat dumbfounded as noxious fumes assaulted my nostrils, "Great. Poison gas. At least the seatbelt worked."

How did it happen? I wasn't speeding. I wasn't tailgating. The CHP officer offered these comforting words, "That's why they're called accidents."

I was a new Christian. I saw my sinful lifestyle as a depressing waste. Life was going to be good from now on. I didn't know then about the Refiner's fire. I didn't know that the accident was only the first in a 10 year series of trials that would repeatedly bend me to the breaking point. But like Simon Peter, going back was never an option.

Jesus had been preaching in the synagogue at the end of John 6. His disciples had difficulty understanding the teaching and were murmuring. He explained and told them that some were not believers and that "no one can come to Me unless it has been granted to him by My Father." (v 65) Many disciples left. Then in verse 67 Jesus asked the twelve, "Do you also want to go away?"

Sometimes you do everything right and still get in a wreck. These are the times I hear the Devil's call trying to lure me back. But we have only two options. So I say with Simon Peter, "Lord, to whom shall we go? You have the words of eternal life." (v 68)