Today's Reading: Mark 13: 14-27
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Please click this link to read Mark 13: 14-27
Bible Study
This passage is very special because up to verse 13 Jesus warned his followers not to panic when all kinds of destruction come, but from verse 14 the mood changes. N.T. Wright says that at a certain sign they need to run without looking back, without picking up belongings, to flee so quickly that those with young children will have difficulty keeping up. N.T. Wright says that Jesus was prophesying the terrible tale of the siege of Jerusalem in AD 70, how people starved, ate their own babies to stay alive, fought each other for dirty food. Jesus clearly wanted his followers to get out and run.
N.T. Wright stresses that this passage "is not a prediction of 'the end of the world', though many in Jerusalem at the time must have wished it was. Had it been the end of the world, what would have been the point of running away so frantically? No; but it was the end of their world."
We may not have a chance to see the end of the world but the end of our world would be at hand. The way of how we live comfortably in our own lifestyle. We are so easily being deceived by the world we are living in and not willing to be changed by a lifestyle of christlikeness.
Be on your guard!
Have a time to be still and give the Holy Spirit space to speak through the passage of scripture we have just read. Offer this time up to God as you listen to him, while listening to "Gabriel's Oboe"
Spiritual Journal
What I heard from Jesus today is: Do not be deceived!
When sufferings comes usually we have quite some reactions in common:
Fear, panic, deceived.
What Jesus wants us to do in the time of our sufferings are:
Be on guard, Stand firm and trust Jesus.
Dear Lord Jesus,
Thank you for warning us that our world may come to an end anytime. Help us to be on guard, stand firm and trust you totally. In Jesus name we pray. Amen.
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