Re:Verse passage – Mark 2:18-22 (day six)
A really good question often leads to a really good answer. This question posed by John’s followers and the pharisees certainly fit that description. Although they both may have had ulterior motives, the answer was revealing all the same, if they were willing to see it.
Fasting, as it was practiced, was intended to serve a particular purpose. When genuine it demonstrated repentance (or mourning) and anticipation of God fulfilling his promise to send the messiah. Jesus clearly reveals the purpose of the fast had been fulfilled because the groom has come!
If the disciples had insisted on fasting they would have missed the point altogether; they would have missed Jesus.
So, Jesus asks us too, are there good things in our lives, that once served a good purpose, but now only keep us from seeing and savoring Jesus? Is there anything that now robs us rather than helps us? That binds us or blinds us, rather than setting us free to be his children in a hurting world?
Good questions often lead to good answers. Will you ask them with me?
Do we have a cultural virus?
I believe we are infected with busyness doing good things while largely ignoring the best thing.
It’s not about us, it’s not about Him, it’s about them. Jesus was always about them.
Who are we? What do we value?