John 6:63 It is the spirit that quickeneth; the flesh profiteth nothing: the words that I speak unto you, they are spirit, and they are life.

There is a show called The Walking Dead, I have never seen that show. I don’t care to see it because I am afraid I just might see myself in the show. For years I was a walking dead man and didn’t know it. I was dead inside and nothing touched me.

When I made Jesus the Lord of my life I came alive. What experience as a dead man walking could I draw on to help me lead this new life? Nothing, the old dead man had nothing to teach me about this life in Christ. Everything became new. Guess what new comes with? No experience in use. I was the walking dead, what did I know about walking in the spirit? Nothing, I needed to be taught.

John 6:68 Then Simon Peter answered him, Lord, to whom shall we go? thou hast the words of eternal life.

I can relate to Peter here. Nothing else worked for me. Having studied other disciplines, I had not found any words that made me alive and they failed me then. But the words Jesus spoke awakened my legs and gave me this awakening, this quickening that animated what was once dead in me. No one else could do that.

Sadly these two great lines which hold great meaning for me surround a very sad truth, one that haunts me at the ease that people can see the truth, can hear the truth and are not moved by it.

John 6:66 From that time many of his disciples went back, and walked no more with him.

How can anyone see Christ, hear Christ and not make Him the Lord of Life?