MARK 10:32-34

They were on their way up to Jerusalem, with Jesus leading the way, and the disciples were astonished, while those who followed were afraid. Again he took the Twelve aside and told them what was going to happen to him. “We are going up to Jerusalem,” he said, “and the Son of Man will be delivered over to the chief priests and the teachers of the law. They will condemn him to death and will hand him over to the Gentiles, who will mock him and spit on him, flog him and kill him. Three days later he will rise.”

TO PONDER

I have started to text our two boys when I’m “asking” them to do a chore because that way I have a written, certifiable, recorded evidence that I have actually asked them to do the chore. 

I have been forced to add this extra step due to the oft’ used excuse of, “You didn’t tell me to do that!” So far it is working…

In today’s verses it seems that Jesus was obvious with what was about to happen in the coming days but they still missed it. Jesus on at least 3 separate occasions in the book of Mark predicted His death and resurrection on the third day but they still missed it. After three years of living with, travelling with, working with, and learning from Jesus, they were given the behind the scenes access to who He was and what was to be expected but they still missed it.

God texted us on stone tablets, God texted us in the 39 books of the Old Testament, and then God texted us in the incarnation of the living Word, God texted us again through His sacrificial death on the cross and to text us yet again in the 27 books of the New Testament but have we still missed it?

Jesus even sent us a “life-hack” short text, summarising a bunch of His other text messages when he said to love God with your everything and to love others as well as you love yourself (Matthew 22:37-39) but have we still missed it?

PRAYER: Jesus our living Word, the Word who became flesh and blood, the Word who died on the cross for my sin, today I give you my all and repent of all the times I still miss it. I thank you for your grace shown through all the messages you've sent me. Amen

Today's devotion written by Dany Brock, LifeWay Westside