Will You Also Go Away?

"Then Jesus said to the twelve, "Do you also want to go away?" But Simon Peter answered Him, "Lord, to whom shall we go? You have the words of eternal life."  -John 6:67-68 (NKJV) 

Many have forsaken Christ, and have walked no more with him; but what reason have we to make a change? Has there been any reason for it in the past? Has not Jesus proved himself all-sufficient?  He appeals to us this morning -- "Have I been a wilderness unto you?" (Jeremiah 2:31)   When our soul has simply trusted Jesus, have we ever been confounded? Have we not up till now found our Lord to be a compassionate and generous friend to us, and has not simple faith in him given us all the peace our spirit could desire? Can we so much as dream of a better friend than he has been to  us?  Then change not the old and tried for new and false. As for the present, can that compel us to leave Christ? When we are hard beset with this world, or with the severer trials within the Church, we find it a most blessed thing to pillow our head upon the bosom of our Saviour. This is the joy we have today that we are saved in him; and if this joy be satisfying, wherefore should we think of changing? Who barters gold for dross? We will not forswear the sun till we find a better light, nor leave our Lord until a brighter lover shall appear; and, since this can never be, we will hold him with a grasp immortal, and bind his name as a seal upon our arm.  As for the future, can we suggest anything which can arise that shall render it necessary for us to mutiny, or desert the old flag to serve under another captain? We think not. If life be long--he changes not. If we are poor, what better than to have Christ who can make us rich?  When we are sick, what more do we want than Jesus to make our bed in our sickness? When we die, is it not written that "neither death, nor life, nor things present, nor things to come, shall be able to separate us from the love of God," (Romans 8:38-39) which is in Christ Jesus our Lord!"  We say with Peter, "Lord, to whom shall we go?" (John 6:68). Praise the Lord, God bless