Good morning! Wow is it cold outside.. No I did not do my morning walk. the wind yesterday gave me a wretched headache so no cold for me this morning.
What is the most important meal of the day? According to the experts, breakfast. Breakfast gives you your energy for the day and just give you a good kickstart. What is the first thing you put into your mind in the mornings? I have talked about giving 1st fruits each day so I have decieded the first thing that I put into my mind will be Gods word. When I woke up, instead of running, I just had 30 min of quite time, where I read a short passage from Psalms. It was about cleansing my heart. Each day I will ask God for a factory reset on my heart. As babies, we have the purest heart we will ever have. No worldly influence, just Gods perfected plan. Then we grow and the world begins to tarnish our hearts. We develop a tough skin and a calloused (?) heart to keep us from getting hurt. If being hurt by the world allows me to hear God and to draw closer, then so be it. I want a cleansed heart to start my day.
Day 3 Devotion: Mark 10: 41-52
This is the story of the blind beggar that cries out to Jesus to be healed. I have read/heard this story countless times and I always hear the part about Bartimaeus recieving his sight. As I read it today, I noticed 2 things; first the crowd kept telling him to be quite as he called out to Jesus and second he threw his beggar cloak to the ground and went to Jesus.
The world has us convinced that our problems are not worth taking them to Jesus. Bartimaeus could have just ask Jesus for food, water, or money, but he had faith that this man named Jesus could restore his sight. The crowd was trying to quiten him, but he refused to stop calling to Jesus. The crowd in my life is not external, but internal. The voices of pride, of fear of intellect cry out to be quite, dont call on Jesus. You can handle this yourself or this problem isnt big enough or important enough for Jesus. How many times has the voice said what have you done to earn Jesus helping you? So many times I listen to them and stay silent. I am going to cry out to Jesus for the smallest problem to the largest problem. He is in control.
What is the big deal about the beggar tossing asside his beggars cloak? Everything! His cloak was his idenity, his literal meal ticket. Without that cloak, he could not beg for food water and money. His faith was so great he rose up, threw aside his cloak and went to Jesus. Nowhere in the passage does it say Jesus prayed for him or touched him. Jesus said his faith healed him. All of the problems in my life are readily solveable if I can only have the faith of a blind beggar
My prayer for day 3; Lord cleanse my heart so that I may draw closer to you and drown out the voices of the world Amen
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