There are so many interesting and important things in each chapter it is hard to narrow things down to talk about them! God's word is alive and powerful!
Therefore what God has joined together, let no one separate."
Mark 10:9
Good is the author of marriage and the one who is actively involved to bring a man and woman together and make them one.
Truly I tell you, anyone who will not receive the kingdom of God like a little child will never enter it."
Mark 10:15
Jesus both loved and related to children and he holds them up as a model for believers: without pretence, dependant and humble to name a few characteristics.
"Why do you call me good?" Jesus answered. "No one is good—except God alone.
Mark 10:18
An important verse for the situation and also for our lives and times. We, like this man, often think of ourselves as good. We think that we are basically close and ready to inherit heaven. We tend to falsely maximize our goodness and at the same time decrease God's goodness and his complete "otherness" - we think of him as being like us.
The truth is that we are not gious but evil and are wholly in need of a savior!
Jesus looked at them and said, "With man this is impossible, but not with God; all things are possible with God."
Mark 10:27
The great news for us is that God can change any hard heart to know and follow him - no matter how impossible that may seem!
Not so with you. Instead, whoever wants to become great among you must be your servant, and whoever wants to be first must be slave of all. For even the Son of Man did not come to be served, but to serve, and to give his life as a ransom for many."
Mark 10:43-45 NIV
Jesus and the kingdom of God turn our normal way of doing things upside down! To be great means too serve others not be served!
Thank you Jesus for loving and serving us!
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