MARK CHALLENGE – DAY #2: Mark 2
TRUTH: All though there are many awesome
points of instruction and truth in Mark chapter 2, the one that stands out the
most to me found in the account of Jesus healing the paralyzed man. I am sure that you remember the story. Jesus is teaching at this particular
house. The news spreads that he is there
and a huge crowd gathers. There were
some men who had a friend that was paralyzed.
They desired to get him in front of Jesus so that he might be
healed. They were so intent about
getting him there to see Jesus that the loaded him up on a mat and carried him
to the house in which Jesus was at. When
they arrived they could not get through the crowd to get there friend in front
of Jesus. Did they give up – NO! They carried their friend up to the roof and
lowered him down through a hole in the roof right in front of Jesus and Jesus
heals their friend. I think about the
persistence of these men. It makes me
wonder how far I am willing to go to bring someone to Jesus. To be honest sometimes I don’t even get out
of the starting gate on this. Definitely an area that I need to grow a great
deal.
RIGHTEOUSNESS: I feel this story speaks a message of
compassion. Compassion of the men that
took their friend to Jesus and the righteous characteristic of the compassion
Jesus showed the man when he healed him.
RESPONSE: My response to my reading today is to
begin to look for ways in which I can show more compassion towards the
individual God brings in and around my life and to find ways to bring them in
front of Jesus.
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