Friday Reading: Mark 12:1-12
Key Verse: Mark 12:7
7 But those vinedressers said among themselves, This is the heir! Come, let us kill him and the inheritance shall be ours.
Devotion:
Looking back on the things that Christ taught about, it seems to be a wonder that all who heard Him speak did not know who He is! But this parable helps us to understand the mind-set of the people that were there at the time of Christ and to help us also to understand what we face today when we tell others of Christ our Lord and Saviour.
We are not always going to be faced with crowds of people wanting to know everything about Christ. We will not always be able to convince others that Christ is even real. There will be times when we will be reviled for even mentioning that Jesus is God! But that does not mean that what we know is not the truth; all it means is that there are a whole lot of people out there who do not yet know the truth.
Christ wanted the Jews to know that what was about to happen was because of what they were doing. God is the man who planted the vineyard and dug the vat and built the tower. The Jews are the people to whom it was let. When God sent His only Son to come to them, they rejected Him and even despised Him because of whom He was (and is). Because of that they are the ones who will have to face up to what they have done.
But let us not turn this into anything against the Jews because we have all now been given that same chance at tending God’s vineyard. If we continue to reject Him then we are going to find that we will be the ones with the problem when we have to face God. We need to acknowledge Christ now for who He is so that we can be sure that when He does return we will not be on the receiving end of God’s anger. Jesus willingly came to claim what was rightfully His. We must be willing to admit that He is who He said He was and praise Him for being willing to do all He has for each one of us...
Points to Ponder:
Are you building your own stash?
Do you realise it is what God has given to us?
