This week Jesus shares a difficult saying with his followers. His objective is to shift their thinking from a natural perspective to a spiritual one. When he tells his followers they must eat up his body and drink of his blood they found it a hard saying. They decided to no longer follow Jesus when they couldn’t understand his sayings.
Jesus use this metaphor of eating of his flesh and drinking of his blood to symbolize the act of believing in him for salvation he offered through his sacrifice on the cross. The aim of the lesson is to practice unconditional loyalty to the Lord in our every day lives. The fact is we must learn to abide in Jesus even when we do not understand his Ways. The principle of the lesson is to develop an unflinching loyalty to Christ, even when following him includes dealing with realities that offend our sensibilities.