Tuesday 15 Feb 2022

February 15: Mark 8:14-21

Key Verse: Mark 8:18
Do you have eyes but fail to see, and ears but fail to hear? And don’t you remember?

Devotion:
Sometimes we go through life and we pick things up quickly, often having great success with things. Other times we seem to struggle at every step along the way, never getting anything right! That’s just life! But, the more we are willing to listen and learn, the more we will be able to pick up and the more we may be able to succeed.

Jesus had fed huge crowds of people with what would normally pass as one meal for a person or two; we can be forgiven for thinking they had not learned anything because they only had a single loaf of bread with them in the boat here. What were they going to eat? Shouldn’t they had been more prepared for the journey?

Or you could think along the lines of complacency and say the disciples should have totally relied on Jesus to feed them on this journey… But Jesus was preparing them for what lay ahead, not the amount of food they had or did not have, but where their food came from and what it was. But Jesus was not talking about physical food here – Jesus wanted to prepare them for their spiritual journey more than anything!

We can go through life watching others and copying what they do. We can pick up how others live their spiritual lives and do the same as them… but whom do we put our trust in? Jesus wanted them to see the religious leaders at the time were not spreading the gospel truth but were telling people how they wanted them to behave instead of how God wanted them to behave!

Jesus wants us to be aware of the people who will spread false stories which sound good and look good on paper, but take us away from the spiritual lives God wants us to lead...

Points to Ponder:
Where do you get your spiritual input from?

Are you willing to spend more time in our bible learning what God wants you to know?