The devotional - 125 - Wisdom

Thought for the Day – 125 – Faith and Rest

Proverbs 4:1-27 – Many times in Proverbs I am reminded that King David took care to teach his son Solomon foundational truth from the Old Testament scripture. Now some of us would think that this is from Genesis to Malachi and that would be error. The available Word of God in those days was the first five books that we have today. Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers and Deuteronomy; notice Deuteronomy 29:29

 

Comments and challenges

The other morning on our way to church, my wife saw a very large bird; at first we thought it was a turkey. Turkeys are very popular here in New England. The bird was scurrying away from the road and into the field, we both agreed that it was a turkey, but you know how that goes… with a little thought and much imagination we determined that the bird was too big to be a mere turkey so we added the word BUZZARD. “Yea we agreed as we traveled further down the road and away from the sighting that indeed it was a turkey buzzard. We have turkey buzzards in New England too!

Now what is the rub? In gospel of Mark (I can be skeptical of what I read) and I think it is the way in which he writes that causes me this confusion. The best way to clear up any confusion in the Living Bible is to see if it is documented somewhere else. The Holy Bible is a perfect documentary on itself and it is not necessary to be verbatim, but it is necessary for the other reference to agree.

Like in my conversation with my wife about “big bird” our stories differed slightly but we did agree. The bird was big, black and had a little red “something or other” hanging from its beak and this was enough to say it was a turkey. The rest could go either way.

Mark 1:29 – Now as soon as they had come out of the synagogue, they entered the house of Simon and Andrew, with James and John. Mark 1:30 – But Simon’s wife’s mother was sick with a fever, and they told Him (Jesus) about her at once. Mark 1:31 – So He came and took her by the hand and lifted her up, and immediately the fever left her and she served them.

Matthew 8:14 – Now when Jesus had come into Peter’s house, He saw his wife’s mother lying sick with a fever. Matthew 8:15 – and He (Jesus) touched her hand, and the fever left her. Then she arose and served them.

Also we can note that Mark and Matthew agree in the following few verses regarding the healing of many folks after the sun went down on the Sabbath day of rest. Now in just these two events we have a good witness that Jesus Christ the Son of the Living God had power and authority on this earth to SPEAK pure doctrine, to CAST out the presence of demonic power and with a WORD heal the sick. But there was another witness to this event recorded by Doctor Luke who wrote of this account in Luke 8:38-41.

The gospel accounts of Jesus are TRUE… for me; this is a comforting rest. There is no longer a need to go searching for truth. The Jews were looking for Messiah and Matthew presents to the Jew their King. Mark saw the LORD Jesus as the Servant as in Zechariah 3:8 and Luke saw the LORD as human and as God in One Person. Zechariah 6:12. Faith comes from hearing and hearing by the word of God. Romans 10:17 and have you noticed Romans 10:14-21? Verse 17 is surrounded by the Old Testament Living word of God.

Lastly!!! WHAT? The apostle Peter was MARRIED? I wonder if that rocks the papal seat of some churches?