Journal Day 12

October 13 2006 - Day 12

Mark 7:31-8:10

Passage: Today’s passage is full of miraculous events. Jesus gives hearing and speech to a man who is deaf and has a speech impediment. He the for the second time in His ministry feeds a great crowd. This time he feeds about four thousand people. The main message of the text is that Jesus is the Messiah. I will however save that for the next two days where the message is accentuated the most. Another great observation from this passage is the compassion and care that Jesus had for His people. Jesus says in 8:2 “I have compassion on the crowd, because they have been with me now three days and have nothing to eat. And if I send them away hungry to their homes, they will faint on the way. And some of them have come from far away.”

Application: Jesus was fully God and He was fully a man. In this passage we see the humanity of Jesus. Jesus knew what it meant to be hungry. Jesus knew what it meant to go without food for three days, for He had gone forty days during a fast earlier in His life. Not only did Jesus know what it felt like to be weak in hunger, but also He had compassion for the hungry people around Him. He did not like seeing the people starve and He did not want the people to die because of it. Jesus has compassion on me also. Hebrews 4:15 says, “For we do not have a high priest who is unable to sympathize with our weaknesses, but one who in every respect has been tempted as we are, yet without sin.” This high priest is Jesus. Today, Jesus has had sympathy on me. Today He has gone to God the Father on my behalf and pleaded my cause. I thank God for the sinless, compassionate humanity of Jesus the Christ.