When the Christian studies the life of Jesus in the Gospels, we not only see the divine aspects of Jesus as the God-man, but we also are able to learn from Him as the perfect human. Jesus experienced all that we experience as people living on earth. He was both loved and rejected. He was both believed and scorned. He was misunderstood, misrepresented, and mistreated. Yet, in all of His encounters with people, Jesus remained amazingly committed to fulfilling the mission the Father had given Him. So must we as His followers. This snapshot from Mark’s Gospel reveals how we cannot allow opposition, rejection, and ridicule from others to move us off our marks. We must remain relentless to finish the works assigned to us. Jesus not only exemplifies to us how to do this, He empowers us to continue forward and to finish well.