Read Today's Passage
Today's reading built upon yesterday's service beautifully. To open my Bible and my scheduled reading for the day is about Jesus and His disciple's observation of communion was so powerful. We see many things in this chapter of Mark, many things that I am sure you are familiar with. Communion. Judas' betrayal of Jesus. Jesus praying in Gethsemane. Jesus arrested and tried. Peter denying Jesus three times, as per Jesus' prophecy. It is all familiar.
Yet there are a few things I want to share. What was it that motivated Judas to betray Jesus? Did the encounter with the woman at the beginning of this chapter set the desire into his heart, or was it the last straw for him? Why is it that Mark makes no mention of Judas slipping out between communion and the time of Jesus' arrest? Just who was the man following Jesus who left his clothes behind as Jesus was led away?
I love how Jesus and His 12 sang together after their meal. If anyone needs more reason for us to do the same today (singing together corporately), look no further than this chapter. Jesus Himself did it. I also enjoyed seeing that He confided in the men He took to the Garden with Him about the state of His soul. We do this far too infrequently today. And it comforted me to read once again that Jesus Himself dealt with weakness. But He also desired for God's will to be done and asked that God's will supersede His own. At least twice! How often do I fail at this particular prayer? Way too often.
In today's chapter, we get to see Jesus as a man looking at His own mortality. He has to deal with the fact that very soon, He will die a death of horribly excruciating pain, and not for anything that He did, but for everything that we did and will do. We who are like Peter, running away denying that we even know Jesus. How much God loves us to allow Jesus to do this for us.
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2 comments:
well peter ran his mouth again and it got him no where haha
and i didnt no that judias went 2 the pharisees about betraying jesus
It must have been very difficult and confusing for the disciples when Jesus said that they would be scattered. You would think they would ask, "What am I missing here, I thought things were going great?" but they just rallied behind Jesus like a activist or something. You would think that they would notice Him acting a little strangely and ask Him why, and question what they were really getting themselves into. Peter was a zealot and maybe he got caught up in the idea of Jesus overthrowing the Romans or something. We know the disciples were interested in power because hey fought about it on the road, they asked Jesus to let them rule, and because Jesus had to constantly tell them to be last rather than first. There is an almost cliche that goes "Would you die for your faith??...Would you live for it?" Maybe this is what Jesus had to work through-it is easy to support a cause or a fight, we even root for the underdog sometimes! But he wants us to surrender to God's will, just like He had to.
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