Mark 6:45-56
Read Mark 6:45-56
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Boy there is a lot of meat in this passage of scripture, I hope you really read it well is that God can speak to your heart today. The picture is clear Jesus sent the disciples away so he could be alone to pray. First lesson, prayer in private is important. We all need to have a private place and time to pray and nothing else. Jesus was God in the flesh and He needed it, so how much more do we need it? The disciples were having a tough time fighting the wind and current so they were not getting to the port very fast. As a matter of fact they were moving in inches and yards. Jesus saw them even thought it was night and about three in the morning He was walking on the water toward them. They saw Him and thought Him to be a ghost. So He walked over and got in the boat and the sea became clam. They were amazed; Jesus had just feed over five thousand with the five loaves and two fish. But they were not getting it at all. Their hearts were hard, not that they rejected Jesus, but that they were not that it in, who Jesus really was. They had the truth but they pushed it away. The truth would change you if you let it and for some reason they did not see the need to be changed by the truth. Maybe they were not willing to totally trust Him, there was no way to fake the feeding of the five thousand, there was no way to fake His control over the wind and the sea, there was no way to fake walking on the water. He healed the lame, blind and cast out demons but they just could not trust Him yet.
Let me try to sum this up this way. I know the truth that the law says you will drive at a set speed on the highways. That is truth I know it to be truth, but I want to drive faster than what the law says I can so I speed. I like to speed; I do not say there is no speed limit, I choose to not let it change my love for speed. So that when the police write me a ticket, take my driver license or I kill myself or others with my speed I knew the truth it did not change me.
Pray and ask God to soften your heart to the truth and that you will stop pushing God away. Let the truth change you!
