Re:Verse passage – Mark 1:21-35 (day seven)
An interesting thing happens after our students return from camp every summer. Community is heightened, activities have increased engagement, and our students desire to serve. Similar events transpire after Freedom Weekend and other major events in the Youth Ministry. What was different from before these events? What was the catalyst to create this zeal? It was that our students had a personal encounter with the Lord. The byproduct of encountering the Lord is zeal. This is evident in our passage this week,
“And He came to her and raised her up, taking her by the hand, and the fever left her, and she waited on them.” Mark 1:31.
Simon’s mother-in-law immediately began to serve Jesus after she was healed. This was not a misogynistic depiction of the woman. This was the byproduct of her healing, of her encounter with Jesus. Not only did God heal her physically, but she became filled with the Spirit and exuded zeal.
Romans 12:11, “Do not be slothful in zeal, be fervent in spirit, serve the Lord.”
