Tuesday, January 12, 2021

Mark 9:38-50

Mark 9:38-50 

  Big and small.  The Gospel is filled with big and small actions.  Sometimes it is as simple as giving someone a cup of cold water.  Sometimes it will feel more like chopping off a hand or a foot.  Either way, think of the refining fire.  Do you trust the refiner? The one who sits before the fire and puts us into the heart of it?  Do you trust that he's looking out for your interest?  Do you believe that you're being preserved?  That you're being protected?
  If so, you're able to lean into grace.  In those moments, you're able to point beyond yourself to the grace of God at work.  God is at work, in any and all things, in the biggest and smallest moments of your life.  Even in the ordinary, God is there.

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