Monday Reading: Mark 6:1-3
Key Verse: Mark 6:3
3 Is not this the carpenter, the son of Mary, the brother of James and Joses and Judas and Simon? And are not his sisters here with us? And they were offended at Him.
Devotion:
We do not have to look very far to find any place in our bibles where we can recognise just how much Jesus humbled Himself but lifted up God the Father. How could our God lower Himself to be just a normal human being living in a family and working as a carpenter? All the people around Him recognised Him as the carpenter who was born to Mary and Joseph and who had brothers and sisters. But how could those same brothers and sisters come to listen to Him preach unless they knew from where He came. If they thought there to be any fraud they would not have been seen with Him nor would they listen to Him. Yes He had a struggle with preaching to these people because they saw Him for what they thought they knew rather than opening their minds to the truth.
If we are persuaded by the people around us rather than the Word of God then we too will find that we do not want to believe the truth. But if we are willing to listen to the truth we will find out just how wonderful that truth actually is. Can you imagine how their lives could have been changed if they just for one moment left their worldly visions behind and accepted that Jesus could have been their Messiah? That would have lifted the blinds from their eyes and allowed them to know God rather than to continue trusting in mans ways.
Far too often we close our minds off to the truth because we have a very blinkered view of what our lives are or should be. We close off the very Word of God because we don’t want to have things change around us that may lead us to a new life in Christ. God does not change and He will continue to try and get us to change so that we are more like Christ. We live our lives in spite of Him until we accept His Ways and the truth into our lives. Accepting that truth earlier rather than later will only make our lives better!
Points to Ponder:
Are you fighting the truth?
Are you blinded by this world?
