hard words of life

Have you noticed that I spoke in mysterious paradoxes? I claimed to be living bread and living water and even said that you must eat my flesh and drink my blood to have life. These things are not given much emphasis today, and theologians take on the task of providing explanations for these difficult passages to make them easy. But if I wanted to make them easy I would have done so myself and stated them differently. They do not lend themselves to easy answers but they are still the words of life as they are stated. If you continue in my word and engage these questions you shall have life and be free indeed.