Re:Verse passage – Mark 3:20-30 (day three)
“He has lost His senses.”
When one encounters new circumstances, one can wedge those new circumstances into an already existing understanding of the world, or one can change that understanding to accommodate the new circumstances. Therein lies the fundamental difference between those who did not believe Jesus and those who did. The Pharisees – and others who disbelieved – never strayed from their insistence that the world is as they say it is. Jesus’s own family started in this frame of mind. Their reasoning regarding the difficulties and controversies Jesus found himself in shows a family trying to fit what they see into what they know. What they come to realize, though, is that it doesn’t fit. They will have to live with that incongruity, or change their minds. The Bible records the family’s gradually allowing what they see lead them to know something new.
…..”trying to fit what they see into what they know”….. beautifully and succinctly stated, Pastor Brian. Reminding me to consider all around me through eyes and ears and a heart tuned to Jesus.