I am always amazed when God shows me something new from a chapter that I feel like I have read a hundred times. I think most of us could probably give a summary of the events of Mark 15 without much thought or even study, but today God showed me something that I would not have included before. It was a great reminder that the Bible is never done with us and we should never be done with it, no matter how many times we have read it.
As I read the crucifixion story I saw a God of patience. Jesus could have very easily shown all of his accusers His power. He could have very easily used his divine power to once and for all show the world that He truly was divine, but in that moment He showed restraint and patience. The Bible is filled with stories of God promising people things and then requiring patience. Abraham was promised to be the father of many nations and He had to wait, David was exalted as the next King, but he too had to wait, the entire Israelite nation was promised a land of milk and honey, and they too waited, and Joseph suffered patiently and rose to lead His family through the famine. The Bible is full of waiting. Jesus was born different and the Bible is not clear on when exactly He knew he was God, but he waited thirty years to begin his ministry.
Patience for us is probably one of the most difficult things to understand and deal with. We want things now. It would have been easy for Jesus to take his own timing, but He waited until His time had come. In the same way Christ waited for His earthly ministry to begin, He showed true patience in following God’s plan for the end of His earthly ministry. I don’t know that we will ever truly be able to be content and completely patient on God’s plan, but lately He has given me comfort in waiting. Today’s chapter was exactly what I needed to see. Christ once again became the perfect example for me in a way that I had never seen before.
Today my prayer for us is that we will be patient like those heroes of the faith that have gone before us and that when we struggle with patience, that God will give us a comfort and an ease in our waiting.
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