A False Expectation

 

Today's verse is Mark 15:36

And one ran and filled a spunge full of vinegar, and put it on a reed, and gave him to drink, saying, Let alone; let us see whether Elias will come to take him down.

    What do you expect from God? Do you like those that watched Jesus die, expect God to show his power, and only in that way you will believe him? Did not Jesus tell his disciples that the shepherd giveth his life for the sheep? It is by the Cross and his death upon it that God and his Son shewed the world how much he loves us, and for this purpose, though many with unbelief demand that he show his power by saving not us, but himself, that he remained and suffered for our sake, even for our sin, that if we will come to him confessing that he is Lord, and believing that God has risen him from the dead, that he shall save us. However, consider also this, Peter has told us: Grace and peace be multiplied unto you through the knowledge of God, and of Jesus our Lord. and going on, According as his divine power hath given unto us all things that pertain unto life and godliness, through the knowledge of him that hath called us to glory and virtue. Therefore, let us learn of God through his Word, that we also might show his Love to all those about us, through us, and that the Power of the Gospel might be seen in us, that all that see it might also have the opportunity to be saved. Amen.

To God be the Glory

Scott

Today’s reading is Genesis 35-37, Psalm 12, Mark 14

Monday’s reading will be Genesis 38-40, Mark 15