EVERYTHING
Today's reading: Mark 7-8
"Jesus told the crowd not to tell anyone, but the more he told them not to, the more they spread the news, for they were completely amazed. Again and again they said, Everything he does is wonderful. He even heals those who are deaf and mute." Mark 7:36-37 NLT
The amazed crowds that followed Jesus were highly impressed by his miracles. They ate on the bread and fish he provided from a little boy's lunch. They left behind crutches they no longer needed. Their seeing eye dogs were retired out of service.
There words were, Everything he does is wonderful.
And they believed it.
Until they didn't.
What he did was amazing, what he said brought about conviction.
The miracles he performed were astounding, how he asked them to live was radical.
The love in his eyes and in his voice drew them close, what he required they leave behind tore at their hearts.
The way he lived intrigued them, but the traditions he asked them to give up crossed the line.
What about you?
Do you stand in amazement, or are you bristling with conviction, refusing to give up your little idols, standing arms crossed in absolute defiance of what he is asking of you?
How easily we can go from one extreme to the other, wouldn't you agree?
