When we invite God in, we invite a firm foundation in our hearts and in the lives we live. This helps us WHEN we stumble to know that we will recover. That WHEN we stumble we know that God still loves us. WHEN we stumble we should still love ourselves.

I wonder what it would look like if we approached Jesus with a sense of humility, child-like faith, and a sense of awe. What if instead of burying questions or pretending we have it all figured out, we brought them to our Maker who wants to mold us, walk with us, and who wants us to know Him more?

We pray because we believe. We fast because we believe. The more we pray and fast, we tend to believe even more! It’s so important to have a lifestyle where we are consecrated to God in various ways. Committed to God in consistent prayer.

As we continue to learn from the book of Mark, today we will focus on the passage found in chapter 9, verses 14-23.

We can read the Bible to learn who Jesus is, but we have been blessed with opportunities in our daily life to see Him so that we can know who Jesus is. I believe Jesus is always showing us who He is, but we have to be sure to see it.

If you are going to follow Jesus wholeheartedly, then you no longer own yourself. He has ultimate rights; he has lordship of your life. So, you no longer belong to yourself. Trust in Jesus that he will take care of you. This is the way of the cross. 

I encourage you to spend some time this week to ask your Heavenly Father to reveal who He truly is to you, just as His spirit revealed the identity of Jesus to Peter. 

My prayer is that the Lord would continue to renew our sight to see him more fully, face to face and that he would give us the eyes, patience, and questions to fall in love with him in a new way today. Jesus is inviting us into a relationship of perfect sight and perfect restoration.

So long as we are flesh, our perspective is temporal, and we see, literally, through our earthly eyes. Even the disciples of Christ who followed him and witnessed all of his miracles firsthand still heard and saw Jesus’ words through their earthly perspective; a HERE and NOW perspective.

This morning I am going to continue our series diving into the Gospel of Mark and share a couple of thoughts I found really impactful to me while specifically going through Mark 8 that tells the story of Jesus feeding the 4000.