Mark 12
Be Faithful Today!
Good morning! This is Pastor Jerry Ingalls from New Castle First Baptist Church and today is Saturday, May 2.
The COVID-19 pandemic is on everyone’s mind. We are all trying to figure out the right next step. What we need right now is a living faith that gives us resiliency! My simple definition of resiliency is that when you are knocked down, you have the ability to not only get back up, but to bounce forward. The key to this is having a living and persevering faith.
In Mark 12:11-12, at the end of a parable where Jesus clearly indicates that He knows that He will be betrayed and killed, Jesus quotes from Psalm 118:22-23, “The stone that the builders rejected has become the cornerstone; this was the Lord’s doing, and it is marvelous in our eyes.”
The next verse of this Psalm sings, “This is the day which the Lord has made; Let us rejoice and be glad in it.”
Jesus told this parable and while the religious leaders looked for ways to arrest him, Jesus kept on going, not preoccupied with their plans to harm Him, but fully alive in the moment. Jesus had resiliency because He fully trusted His Father with all of His tomorrows.
When you can trust God for tomorrow, you can live faithfully today!
Seize the moment and don’t miss today! Be faithful today! This weekend has so much potential for good, so don’t miss it because you are preoccupied about next week or next month. Call someone and sing: This is the Day the Lord has made, let us rejoice and be glad in it! Maybe that is all you need to know or do for today! Enjoy the weekend!
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