Saturday Mark 8:31-33
BIBLE PASSAGE
[Please do read the passage before (or after) reading the devotion.]
Reminder: There will be NO daily devotion tomorrow, Sunday. Hopefully, most of you will be in a House of Worship listening to God yourselves. Go prepared with open hearts, though!
After Peter’s amazing, God-inspired confession that Jesus was indeed the Messiah (the anointed Deliverer), Jesus clearly described what would really happen to this Messiah. Popular expectations of Messiahship had to do with politics and power, which would have fit into Peter’s image of him. But Jesus’ Messiah was going to be a Suffering Servant – “despised and rejected of men; a man of sorrows, and acquainted with grief” (Isaiah 53:3). Peter and the rest of humanity find such a Messiah weak and useless, which is why he pulls Jesus aside to scold him for even talking about it. Jesus makes two observations. First, the Evil One can use even those closest to us to “trip” us. Second, unless we begin to see things from God’s perspective, nothing of spiritual significance will ever make sense to us.
Prayer: Loving Savior, I cannot bear to look at suffering. Whenever I look at it with my normal eyes, all I see is pain. And I don’t want pain – not for me, not for those around me, not even for you. But your Spirit in me makes me see something completely different. I see that you had to go through it, or else I would never have been delivered from my own sin, my past, my pain. From a heavenly perspective, I see there is no greater power than that of loving sacrifice. I know it hurt you, and when I do as you do, it will hurt me as well. So give me the “mind of Christ” … to “do the things of God.” Amen.
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[Please do read the passage before (or after) reading the devotion.]
Reminder: There will be NO daily devotion tomorrow, Sunday. Hopefully, most of you will be in a House of Worship listening to God yourselves. Go prepared with open hearts, though!
After Peter’s amazing, God-inspired confession that Jesus was indeed the Messiah (the anointed Deliverer), Jesus clearly described what would really happen to this Messiah. Popular expectations of Messiahship had to do with politics and power, which would have fit into Peter’s image of him. But Jesus’ Messiah was going to be a Suffering Servant – “despised and rejected of men; a man of sorrows, and acquainted with grief” (Isaiah 53:3). Peter and the rest of humanity find such a Messiah weak and useless, which is why he pulls Jesus aside to scold him for even talking about it. Jesus makes two observations. First, the Evil One can use even those closest to us to “trip” us. Second, unless we begin to see things from God’s perspective, nothing of spiritual significance will ever make sense to us.
Prayer: Loving Savior, I cannot bear to look at suffering. Whenever I look at it with my normal eyes, all I see is pain. And I don’t want pain – not for me, not for those around me, not even for you. But your Spirit in me makes me see something completely different. I see that you had to go through it, or else I would never have been delivered from my own sin, my past, my pain. From a heavenly perspective, I see there is no greater power than that of loving sacrifice. I know it hurt you, and when I do as you do, it will hurt me as well. So give me the “mind of Christ” … to “do the things of God.” Amen.
SONG: CLICK HERE
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