Read John 6:56-69 with your family.

Today we like to think that everyone loved Jesus back in the Bible times, and everyone believed what he had to say, and everyone understood, or mostly understood, what Jesus was teaching them. But that is not the case. Some people did not like what Jesus had to say at all.

We know that those who worked at the Temple had a problem with what Jesus was teaching, but regular people did too.

We teach children that Jesus’ message was to love everyone, and that is true. Love is easy to understand when you are young.

But for grown-ups, it is a little harder. They wanted more answers and didn’t always like what Jesus had to say about changing their own lifestyles to make the world better. They wanted easy answers and didn’t always realize that the easiest thing to think about could sometimes be the hardest thing to put into action.

In order for everyone to have enough, those who have too much have to give that up, and they didn’t want to.

Jesus understood this. That was why he let people go. If you want to follow Jesus, that is a choice we all have to make. And following Jesus is sometimes very hard.