“ If they were wise, they would understand this; they would discern their latter end!”
John 6:66 After this many of his disciples turned back and no longer walked with him. So Jesus said to the twelve, “Do you want to go away as well?” Simon Peter answered him, “Lord, to whom shall we go? You have the words of eternal life, and we have believed, and have come to know, that you are the Holy One of God.”
2 Timothy 4:10 For Demas, in love with this present world, has deserted me and gone to Thessalonica. Crescens has gone to Galatia, Titus to Dalmatia.
2 Timothy 1:15 You are aware that all who are in Asia turned away from me, among whom are Phygelus and Hermogenes.
Hebrews 10:38 but my righteous one shall live by faith, and if he shrinks back, my soul has no pleasure in him.”
2 Peter 2:20 For if, after they have escaped the defilements of the world through the knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, they are again entangled in them and overcome, the last state has become worse for them than the first.
1 John 2:19 They went out from us, but they were not of us; for if they had been of us, they would have continued with us. But they went out, that it might become plain that they all are not of us.
Many of His disciples turned away and no longer walked with Him. Scripture today gives examples of those who once had the appearance of walking with Jesus but deserted Him. How would you like to go down in history with your name in the bible for turning away. Worse than this is hearing “Depart from me for I never knew you”. Being complacent and negligent in humbly serving, honoring, following and obeying God does not end well. There is too much distraction if we don’t place Him first in our life. When I say first I am not saying the first you come to when in a trial or situation but rather the first one you think of when you awake and your heart, soul and mind are seeking to know Him deeper every moment. Your heart seeks to see His hand at work in your life and your ears are open seeking to hear His leading for you each day. Open His word and feast on it. What is God speaking to your heart about through what you have read. Think about it through out the day.
