YOU HAVE THE MESSAGE OF ETERNAL LIFE

We go through life faced with different possibilities and options to make in furtherance of our good and the general welfare of the human person. Indeed the process of making choice is an inalienable must for every human being. Since human being has the capacity to make a moral choice though difficult, but distinction between good and evil must be made. It is also inevitable that choices about things are not left out in our human decisions.
Just as in the temporal and human way of life, we make choices, the same is to be found in our spiritual realm in which we are confined to make our moral decisions, since we cannot belong to every other camp; opposing and reinforcing at the same time. Among the son and daughter of Israel, they were called in Moses who received the covenant from Yahweh. They are sheep of God, while God was their shepherd. They have to distinguish themselves in a manner that approves they were living in consonance with God’s way of life; but just as my guess could be good as yours they ramified their actions with infidelity and insincerity.
In the book of Joshua24: - ff, the person of Joshua had to declare a public gathering of all tribes of Israel at Shechem. The reason behind this summon was not to boast his ego; rather it was an attempt to address the moral issue of the people of Israel concerning the allegiance of their soul. They were a people of God, but they lived contrary to this God of theirs. He Joshua proclaimed the loyalty of himself to the living God alongside his family. In the same vain, the tribes of Israel agreed from what they had known about this God who continues to lead them, they pledged their loyalty and lives to God all the days of which they will live. A problem that arises from this response which often times might have not been pondered over all the necessary recollection not adequately made before the all loud assent of WE SHALL DO.
St. Paul in his letter to the Church at Corinth (5:21-23) shows us the nature of our loyalty to God in the model of obedience to Christ shown between Husband and Wife. This loyalty must express itself in OBEDIENCE AND SUBMISSION. The submission and obedience in question here is to God in Christ as the one who has saved you and me. His place in our lives is not replaceable, because in him we move, in him we live and in him we have our being.
Jesus has the message of eternal life as we see in the concluding passage of the gospel of John 6:60-69. When he had taught this gospel of John i.e. Jesus, about the truth as we have it in the theology of the Eucharist, the people began to desert him by leaving him? It was here they declared their unflinching trust and confidence in God, when they said- Where shall we go to, you have the message of eternal life. What a great demonstration of faith in Jesus Christ.
Today Christianity of ours calls for this kind of re-assessment, especially with reference to whom we have decided to serve and how much effort we show in these religious professions we have made in our life. Jesus we understand is the message of eternal life, but how much penetrative are we to tap from this eternal ushered by Jesus. To know that something could help and assist us, but we do not want to avail ourselves of this opportunity is a form of crass ignorance, which ends in the spiritual realm in lost of the kingdom of God.
We must say again that knowledge is power. Jesus has the message of eternal life, to avail ourselves of this fountain; WE MUST YIELD OURSELVES TO WHOM THROUGH OBEDIENCE AND SUBMISSION TO HIS WILLAND DESIGN.