WILL YE ALSO GO AWAY?

 EVENING DEVOTION by James Smith

MARCH 8

 

John 6:67

Then said Jesus unto the twelve,

Will ye also go away?

 
Many left the Saviour in the days of his flesh, and many decline from his ways now.
 
How many like Lot’s wife, look back;
like the man of God who came from Bethel, yield to temptation; or
like Demas, forsake the Saviour, having loved the present world.
 
“Let us therefore fear, lest a promise being left us of entering into his rest, any of us should seem to come short of it.”
 
Go away, what from Jesus!
 
This would be going from light to darkness,
  from plenty to poverty,
  from happiness to misery,
  from life to death.
 
Go from Jesus!
 
To whom can we go?
 
We profess to have discovered the emptiness of the world,
the insufficiency of temporal things to satisfy an immortal soul,
and the pre-eminent excellency of the things of God.
 
Still many go back and walk no more with him.
 
This should lead us to serious consideration.
 
It cries to us with a loud voice and in clear accents, “Let him that thinketh he standeth, take heed lest he fall.”
 
There can be no cause to leave Jesus for one moment. It is folly to stir from his side, it is dangerous to neglect his ordinances, it is madness to turn the back in his ways.
 

Dear Lord, one bliss impart,

(‘Tis not from heaven I pray,)

But let me not from thee depart,

No, never go away.

 
James Smith