Repetition is never redundancy in the kingdom of God. It is grace. Without reminders, we forget and drift. That’s why we should never grow weary of hearing again what think we already know.
In the natural world, no one chooses his/her siblings. This is a radical call to embrace each other as family, rather than treating the church like a club where the imperfect, the struggling, the different are not welcome.
Today, Jesus gives us a good example of what ‘purpose’ is. It is not a destination you reach. It is the quiet, unrelenting force that turns every step into a journey worth taking, because if you don’t no one will.
For our Lord Jesus, there was a place that stood stark contrast to the ‘city’ or the adoring crowds of people who were hunting for Him. It represented the boundary between his public duty and his private devotion. It was called the solitary place.
The recognition of Jesus as the Christ, the Messiah, the Son of God, is not a product of human reasoning but a gift of divine revelation — a truth even the spiritual realm cannot deny.
Whereas sick humanity underscores the widespread nature of sickness and suffering in the world, God reminds us that He’s always been and will always be Jehovah Rapha, the God who heals us!
Today, God reminds you that the same divine authority that rebuked the Red Sea and the powers of Satan in ancient times was the same power that was operational in Christ and through Him, in every believer who acknowledges Him as Lord.
Right when people thought they had Him figured out – a carpenter’s son whose family they knew very well – the spiritual realm could easily recognise Him for all He was.
The way we speak the Word of God – our persuasiveness, eloquence, fluency, and articulacy – matters deeply, because it shapes hearts and transforms lives, just as it did when Jesus preached.
